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  Arends, Leslie C.
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AffiliationRepublican  
 
NameLeslie C. Arends
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Melvin, Illinois , United States
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Born September 27, 1895
DiedJuly 07, 1985 (89 years)
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Oct 12, 2022 04:23pm
Tags Navy - Methodist -
Info born in Melvin, Ford County, Ill., September 27, 1895; attended public and high schools and Oberlin (Ohio) College; during the First World War served in the United States Navy in 1918 and 1919; engaged in agricultural pursuits and banking; in 1935 became member of the Ford County (Ill.) Farm Bureau and in 1938 a member of the board of trustees of the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the nineteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his resignation December 31, 1974; minority whip (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses, Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, and Eighty-fourth through Ninety-third Congresses), majority whip (Eightieth Congress and Eighty-third Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; died on July 17, 1985, in Naples, Fla.; interment in Melvin Cemetery, Melvin, Ill.


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  11/03/1936 IL District 17 Won 52.58% (+5.16%)
  04/14/1936 IL District 17-R Primary Won 88.48% (+76.97%)
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  04/10/1934 IL District 17 - R Primary Won 25.58% (+1.42%)
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