George E. Leach

1876–1955 (age 79)

Politician

Biography

George E. Leach, born in 1876, devoted his life to public service in Minneapolis, serving both as mayor and as a brigadier general whose calm leadership steadied the city and the state through turbulent times.

He championed veterans' needs, supported park development, and sought to bring pragmatic, unifying principles to every council meeting until his death in 1955.

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