Background
Leroy, David Henry was born on August 16, 1947 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Harold David and Lela Fay (Palmer) Leroy.
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Mr. Lincoln's Book: Publishing the Lincoln-Douglas Debates With a Census of Signed Copies
(Fifty years ago, David Mearns at the Library of Congress ...)
Fifty years ago, David Mearns at the Library of Congress wrote a twenty-page overview of the basic process that led to the publication of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Here, for the first time in a detailed and readable account focusing on Lincoln's personal involvement, Dave Leroy writes the full story with original correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and photos and illustrations of the day to carry the reader from the dejected debater of 1858 to the surprise president of 1860 who rode a political bestseller to the White House. In 1954, Illinois historian Harry Pratt located and described eighteen inscribed copies of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. In this new work, 42 signed volumes are identified. Perhaps the last remaining Lincoln mystery is also explained at length: did Lincoln make one or two paste-up scrapbooks of the original newspaper texts of his and Douglas' verbatim debate remarks? If only one existed, why did a New York newspaper account hint at another in December, 1860? If there were two, what became of the second? Like a lawyer before a jury, Leroy marshals the facts to let the reader decide. Ultimately, Mr. Lincoln's Book asks the reader to resolve the century and a half old debate: was Lincoln an author? Some argue that he wasn't, but Leroy leads us to conclude that Lincoln, in more ways than not, was author of the book publishing the debates. It is a rare day when something novel is published about Abraham Lincoln's life and work. Yet 20,000 volumes later, Mr. Lincoln's Book is an unknown study, well researched and compellingly told. The printed volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing a complete copy of Lincoln's scrapbook of the debates, copies and transcriptions of Lincoln's correspondence, and some related political cartoons and photographs.
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David Henry Leroy
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Education
Bachelor of Science, University Idaho, 1969. Juris Doctor, University Idaho, 1971. Master of Laws, New York University, 1972.
Juris Doctor (honorary), Lincoln College, 1993.
Career
Admitted to the bar, 1971, Idaho. 1972, New New York
Order of Barristers. Recipient: First Place, Idaho Supreme Court Appellate Moot Court Competition, 1970.
American Trial Lawyers Association Scholarship, 1970.
Law Clerk to Idaho Fourth District Court, 1969. Author: "The Motion in Limine in Criminal Trials: A Technique for the Pretrial Exclusion of Prejudicial Evidence," 60 Kentucky Law Journal 611, 1972.
"The Potential Criminal Liability of Human Sex Clinics and Their Patients," 16 Saint Louis University Law Journal 586, 1972. "Avoiding Psychiatric Malpractice," 9 California Western Law Review 260, 1973, reprinted in 23 Law Review Digest 50, September-October 1973.
"Motion in Limine Practice," 20 American Jurisprudence Trials 441, 1973.
"A Manual of Forms for Social Work in Idaho," 1974, 1975. Handbook of Idaho Criminal Complaints, 1976. "Running for Governor in the West: A Candidate"s Perspective," Rendezvous, Volume XXIV, Number 1, Fall 1988.
Previous Employment: Henry B. Rothblatt, New York City, Associate Attorney, 1972-1973.
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, 1973-1974. Ada County Prosecuting Attorney, 1974-1978.
Attorney General of Idaho, 1979-1983. Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, 1983-1987.
Chairman: Conference of Western Attorneys General, 1981-1982.
Western Conference of Lieutenant Governors, 1985-1986. Member: National Caucus of Republican Lieutenant Governors, 1983-1985. United States. Supreme Court Historical Society.
Member: Boise and New York State Bar Associations.
Idaho State Bar; Idaho Trial Lawyers Association. National Association of Attorneys General (Member, Executive Board, 1981-1982.
Chairman, Energy Committee, 1981-1982).
Achievements
Works
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Mr. Lincoln's Book: Publishing the Lincoln-Douglas Debates With a Census of Signed Copies
(Fifty years ago, David Mearns at the Library of Congress ...)
- Mr. Lincoln's Book: Publishing the Lincoln-Douglas Debates With a Census of Signed Copies Har/Cdr edition by David H. Leroy (2009) Hardcover
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Mr. Lincoln's Book: Publishing the Lincoln-Douglas Debates With a Census of Signed Copies
Membership
Member State Task Force on Child Abuse, 1975. Member Ada County Council on Alcoholism, 1976. Delegate Republican National Convention, 1976, 80, 84, 2004.
Chairman National Republican Lieutenant Governor's Caucus, 1983-1986. Board directors United Fund, 1975-1981. Delegate American Council Young Political Leaders, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1979, American Council for Free Asia, Taiwan, 1980, United States/Taiwan Investment Forum, 1983.
Delegate leader Friendship Force Tour Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1984. Legal counsel Young Representatives, 1974-1981. Candidate for Governor Idaho, 1986.
Presidential elector, 1992. Candidate United States House Representatives 1st District, Idaho, 1994. Idaho Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Committee chairman, since 2006.
Governor's council United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentenniel commission (chairman 2007-2010). Member National District Attorneys Association, Idaho Prosecutors Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, Idaho Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, National Association Attorneys General (chairman energy subcommittee, executive committee, del to China 1981), Western Attorneys General Association (vice chairman 1980-1983, chairman 1981), National Lieutenant Governors Association (executive board 1983), Idaho Bar Association, Ada County Lincoln Day Association (president 2000), American Lung Association Idaho, Foundation for Idaho History (president 2001-2005), National Academy of Sciences (chairman committee on improving practices for regulating and managing low activity radioactive waste 2002-2006), Idaho State Republic Convention (vice chairman 2004), Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Connections
2 children.
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Nationality
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Religion
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Political Party
Republican party
Career
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1973
Awards
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Recipient: First Place, Idaho Supreme Court Appellate Moot Court Competition, 1970. American Trial Lawyers Association Scholarship, 1970. Law Clerk to Idaho Fourth District Court, 1969.Recipient: First Place, Idaho Supreme Court Appellate Moot Court Competition, 1970. American Trial Lawyers Association Scholarship, 1970. Law Clerk to Idaho Fourth District Court, 1969.