American politician

Robert Milton Leach (April 2, 1879 – February 18, 1952) was a United States Representative from M*achusetts. He was born in Franklin, New Hampshire, on April 2, 1879. He attended the public schools, Phillips Academy and Dartmouth College. He moved to Taunton, M*achusetts, in 1900 and engaged in the chain-store furniture business in New England.

He was commissioned as captain in the Ordnance Division of the United States Army during World War I. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Greene and served from November 4, 1924, to March 3, 1925. He was not a candidate for renomination. He resumed his former business activities and died in Eustis, Florida, on February 18, 1952. His interment was in Franklin Cemetery in Franklin, N.H.

External links

• United States Congress. "Robert M. Leach (id: L000171)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Robert M. Leach at Find a Grave