Background
Leatherwood, Elmer O. was born on September 4, 1872 in Waverly, Ohio, United States. Son of William and America (Hamilton) Leatherwood.
United States representative politician
Leatherwood, Elmer O. was born on September 4, 1872 in Waverly, Ohio, United States. Son of William and America (Hamilton) Leatherwood.
Born on a farm near Waverly, Ohio, Leatherwood attended the public schools. He was graduated from the Kansas State Normal School at Emporia, Kansas, in 1894. He studied law. He graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1901 and was admitted to practice.
He moved to Emporia, Kansas, in 1888. He engaged in public school work 1894-1898. He was admitted to the bar at Hiawatha, Kansas, in 1898.
He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, the same year and continued the practice of his profession.
He served as district attorney for the third judicial district of Utah 1908-1916. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924.
He served as president of the Western Powder Company, Leary &. as well as Warren Stockyards, Hellgate Mining & Milling Company, and the Olympus Mining & Milling Company
Leatherwood was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, until his death in Washington, District of Columbia, on December 24, 1929. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses).
He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mason (32°).
Married Nancy Albaugh, December 26, 1896.