Background
Leon H. Gavin was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved to Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1915.
United States representative politician
Leon H. Gavin was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved to Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1915.
During the First World War he served in the United States Army as a sergeant in the Fifty-first Infantry Regiment of the 6th Infantry Division. He served on the Defense Council of Venango County, Pennsylvania. He was elected as a Republican to the 78th United States Congress and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943 until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage in Washington, District of Columbia on September 15, 1963.
He is interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
He was a member of the State Board of Appeals of the Selective Service System, the executive secretary of the Oil City Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the National Migratory Bird Conservation Commission from 1958 to 1963.
