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Michael Leib

LEIB, Michael, senator, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1759; died there, 22 December, 1822. After receiving a common school education, he studied medicine, practised in Philadelphia, and occupied several offices of trust, including a service of several years in the state legislature. He was elected to congress as a Democrat in 1798, re-elected for the three succeeding terms, and served till 1806, when he resigned. In 1808 he was a presidential elector on the Madison and Clinton ticket. In the same year he was elected to the United States senate in place of Samuel Maclay, who had resigned, and was in office till 1814, when he was appointed postmaster at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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