Leroy Tate Marshall (November 8, 1883 – November 22, 1950) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a

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from

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from 1933 to 1937.

Biography

Born on a farm near

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, Marshall attended the public schools of

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, where he was a teacher in the public schools from 1903 to 1907. He graduated from Cedarville (Ohio) College in 1909 and moved to

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, serving as clerk of courts, Greene County from 1909 to 1913. He studied law and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1911, commencing the practicing of law in

. He served as chairman of the Greene County Republican county committee from 1920 to 1932, also serving as member of the

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from 1925 to 1928.

Congress

Marshall was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

Later career and death

He returned to Xenia to continue the practice of law until his death there, on November 22, 1950. He was interred in

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. He married Nellie Catherine Turnbull at Cedarville on June 4, 1908.

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Leroy Tate 1883 births 1950 deaths Politicians from Xenia, Ohio Republican Party Ohio state senators Cedarville University alumni Burials at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives 20th-century members of the Ohio General Assembly