Leon Martin Conwell (April 15, 1870 – August 18, 1953) was an American journalist and politician who served in the

Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the State legislature (United States), state legislature of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into ...

and as the nineteenth Mayor, of

Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city had a total population of 81, ...

. Conwell was born April 15, 1870, in Somerville, Massachusetts to Jennie P. (Hayden) Conwell, and

Russell H. Conwell Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, author, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphi ...

. Conwell was the publisher and editor of the '' Somerville Journal''.

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1870 births Princeton University alumni Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Mayors of Somerville, Massachusetts 1953 deaths 20th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court {{Massachusetts-MARepresentative-stub