Walter Leake

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Walter Leake

United States Senator from Mississippi
In office December 10, 1817 – May 15, 1820
Preceded by	(none)
Succeeded by	David Holmes
Personal details
Born	(1762-05-25)May 25, 1762 Albemarle County, Virginia
Died	November 17, 1825(1825-11-17) (aged 63) Hinds County, Mississippi
Political party	Democratic-Republican

Walter Leake (May 25, 1762 – November 17, 1825) served as a United States Senator from Mississippi (1817–1820) and as third Governor of Mississippi (1822–1825).

He was the first Governor of Mississippi to die in office. Leake County, Mississippi, as well as Leakesville, Mississippi are named for him.

A native Virginian, he was born in 1762 in Albemarle County, Virginia, the son of Captain Mask Leake and nephew of Rev. Samuel Leake (Princeton University graduate and a member of the first Board of Trustees of Hampden-Sydney College), an ancestor of Senator John McCain of Arizona. Walter Leake's daughter, Susan Wingfield Leake, married 1807 Henry Goodloe Johnston of Spotsylvania County, Virginia and was an ancestor of Haley Reeves Barbour, the former Governor of Mississippi.^[1]

References

↑ The Virginia magazine of history and biography, Volume 11 (Google eBook) (Virginia Historical Society, 1903)

United States Senate
Preceded by None	U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Mississippi 1817–1820 Served alongside: Thomas H. Williams	Succeeded by David Holmes
Political offices
Preceded by George Poindexter	Governor of Mississippi 1822–1825	Succeeded by Gerard Brandon

v t e Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Mississippi

Governors	Holmes Poindexter Leake Brandon Holmes Brandon Scott Lynch Runnels Quitman Lynch McNutt Tucker Brown Matthews Quitman Guion J. Whitfield Foote Pettus McRae McWillie Pettus Clark Sharkey Humphreys Ames Alcorn Powers Ames Stone Lowry Stone McLaurin Longino Vardaman Noel Brewer Bilbo Russell H. Whitfield Murphree Bilbo Conner White Johnson, Sr. Murphree Bailey Wright White Coleman Barnett Johnson, Jr. Williams Waller Finch Winter Allain Mabus Fordice Musgrove Barbour Bryant

Lieutenant Governors	Stewart Patton Dickson Brandon Scott Winston office abolished 1832–1870 Powers Davis Stone Sims Shands Evans Jones Harrison Carter Manship Bilbo Russell Casteel Murphree Adams Murphree Sinder Murphree Wright Lumpkin Gartin Johnson Gartin Sullivan Winter Gandy Dye Briggs Musgrove Tuck Bryant Reeves

v t e United States Senators from Mississippi

Class 1	Leake Holmes Ellis Reed Ellis Black Trotter T. Hickman Williams Henderson Speight Davis McRae S. Adams Davis Ames Pease Bruce George Money J. Williams Stephens Bilbo Stennis Lott Wicker

Class 2	T. Hill Williams Reed R. Adams Poindexter Walker Chalmers Foote Brooke Brown Revels Alcorn Lamar Walthall McLaurin Walthall Sullivan McLaurin Gordon Percy Vardaman Harrison Eastland Doxey Eastland Cochran

Persondata
Name	Leake, Walter
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	1769
Place of birth	Albemarle County, Virginia
Date of death	November 17, 1825
Place of death	Hinds County, Mississippi

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