Michael Liebel, Jr.

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Michael Liebel, Jr. (December 12, 1870–August 8, 1927) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Michael Liebel, Jr. was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He was an accountant in the office of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad at Buffalo for five years. He returned to Erie and engaged in the hardware business, and later organized and was secretary-treasurer of a brewery company. In 1911 organized and became president of the Vulcan Rubber Company. He served as Mayor of Erie from 1906 to 1911. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, and 1924.

Liebel was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1916. He resumed his former business activities, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1927. Interment in Trinity Cemetery in Erie.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by Milton W. Shreve

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district 1915 - 1917

Succeeded by Henry A. Clark