Walter Leake

Walter D. Leake


3rd Governor of Mississippi
In office January 7, 1822 – November 17, 1825
Lieutenant	David Dickson Gerard Brandon
Preceded by	George Poindexter
Succeeded by	Gerard Brandon
United States Senator from Mississippi
In office December 10, 1817 – May 15, 1820
Preceded by	Position established
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 D. 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.

Biography

Walter Leake was born on May 25, 1762 in Albemarle County, Virginia. He was 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.

He served in the United States Senate from 1817 to 1820. He went on to serve as the Governor of Mississippi from 1822 to 1825.

His daughter, Susan Wingfield Leake, married in 1807 Henry Goodloe Johnston of Spotsylvania County, Virginia and was an ancestor of Haley Reeves Barbour, the former Governor of Mississippi.^[1]

↑ The Virginia magazine of history and biography, Volume 11 (Google eBook) (Virginia Historical Society, 1903)
↑ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 183.

United States Senate
Preceded by Position established	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

Governors of Mississippi

Territory (1798–1817)	Sargent Claiborne R. Williams Holmes

State (since 1817)	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. J. Williams Waller Finch Winter Allain Mabus Fordice Musgrove Barbour Bryant

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

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 73789438 LCCN: nr2002010482 US Congress: L000177

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