Walter Leake
U.S. Congressperson
1762 – 1825
Who was Walter Leake?
Walter Leake served as a United States Senator from Mississippi and as third Governor of Mississippi.
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, 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.
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- Born
- May 25, 1762
Albemarle County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Virginia
- Died
- Nov 17, 1825
Hinds County
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on July 23, 2013
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