Michael Liebel, Jr.

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Michael Liebel, Jr.
30th Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania
In office 1906 – 1911
Preceded by	Robert J. Saltsman
Succeeded by	William J. Stern
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 25th district
In office 1915 – 1917
Preceded by	Milton W. Shreve
Succeeded by	Henry A. Clark
Born	December 12, 1870(1870-12-12) Erie, Pennsylvania
Died	August 8, 1927 (aged 56) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Canisius College

Michael Liebel, Jr. (December 12, 1870–August 8, 1927) was a Democratic 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, he 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 of 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, and 1924.

Liebel was the Democratic representative of the 25th District of Pennsylvania to the Sixty-fourth Congress from 1915 to 1917. He was not a candidate for renomination. He resumed his former business activities, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1927. Interment was at Trinity Cemetery in Erie.

[edit] Sources

• Carr, Wooda N. at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

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