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Leopold Markbreit

American diplomat

Leopold Markbreit (March 13, 1842 – July 27, 1909) was a German-American Republican politician in Cincinnati, Ohio. The half-brother of Frederick H*aurek, Markbreit was a lawyer who was briefly the law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him Minister to Bolivia in 1869. He later served as Mayor of Cincinnati from 1908-1909.

He served as a presidential elector in 1896 for McKinley and Hobart.

References

    • Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... Vol.:2. State of Ohio. p.:136.
    • Leopold Markbreit at Find a Grave