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John1956PA

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Thu May 9, 2013, 08:32 PM May 2013

RIP former Pennsylvania Governor George Leader (DEM). He held office from 01-18-1955 to 01-20-1959.

In 1954, candidate Leader was the second-youngest person to be elected governor of Pennsylvania.

He was unable to run for a second term because of a one-term limitation under the Pennsylvania constitution at the time.

An interesting point of trivia is that, from February 6, 2005, through his death today, Mr. Leader's term as governor occurred longer ago than than of any other living former governor.

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RIP former Pennsylvania Governor George Leader (DEM). He held office from 01-18-1955 to 01-20-1959. (Original Post) John1956PA May 2013 OP
He was key in merging thousands of school districts in PA. into 501 JPZenger May 2013 #1
That's a really interesting fact I hadn't read in any of the reports. Counterpoint PA May 2013 #2
RIP George Leader! Counterpoint PA May 2013 #3

Counterpoint PA

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3. RIP George Leader!
Thu May 23, 2013, 08:26 PM
May 2013

I spoke briefly about this in one of the segments of the current edition of Counterpoint PA:

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