Leon Martin Conwell
19th Mayor of
Somerville, Massachusetts
In office
January 4, 1926 – January 6, 1930
Preceded byJohn M. Webster
Succeeded byJohn J. Murphy
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives[1]
26th Middlesex District[2]
In office
1910[1]–1912[1]
Member of the
Somerville, Massachusetts
School Board[1]
In office
1907[1]–1908[1]
Personal details
BornApril 15, 1870
Somerville, Massachusetts
DiedAugust 18, 1953(1953-08-18) (aged 83)
Somerville, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Political partyRepublican[1][2]
Spouse(s)Sarah[3] Harriet Brewster, m. June 19, 1901.[1][3]
ChildrenAgnes Conwell; Charles Brewster Conwell[3]
Alma materRugby Academy, Philadelphia; Princeton University, A.B. class, of 1892.[1]
ProfessionJournalist[1]

Leon Martin Conwell (April 15, 1870 – August 18, 1953) was an American journalist and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives[1] and as the nineteenth Mayor, of Somerville, Massachusetts.[4]

Conwell was born April 15, 1870, in Somerville, Massachusetts to Jennie P. (Hayden) Conwell, and Russell H. Conwell.[1]

Conwell was the publisher and editor of the Somerville Journal.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Marquis, Albert Nelson (1915), Who's who in New England, Volume IV 2nd. ed., Chicago, IL: A. N. Marquis & Company, p. 269
  2. 1 2 Secretary of the Commonwealth (1910), Election statistics, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Public Document no. 43, Boston, Ma: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth, p. xciii
  3. 1 2 3 Cutter, William Richard (1910), Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume IV, New York, N.Y.: Lewis Historical Pub. Company, p. 2107
  4. ↑ "Leon M. Conwell". The Boston Globe. August 19, 1953. p. 9. Retrieved June 26, 2019.


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