Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Lucius Pat Leach

Full Name: Lucius Pat Leach
Birth date: May 10, 1881
Death date: August 20, 1931

Terms of Service

House, 32nd Legislature
1/10/1911 - 1/14/1913
Democrat
House, 31st ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/12/1909 - 1/10/1911
Democrat

(1) Democrat; roster of members of the 31st Legislature with biographical and party information. "Year Book 1909," Number 13, May-June 1910, pp. 408-415. Bulletin (Texas Department of Agriculture) 1910.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. L. Pat Leach, State Preservation Board
Photograph. L. Pat Leach, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

L. Pat Leach, birth date 5/10/1881 in Alabama; death date 8/20/1931 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas; burial in Big Hill; Methodist minister; wife Mrs. Berta Champion Leach. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Rev. L.P. Leach (1881-1931), burial in Big Hill Cemetery, Big Hill, Limestone County. Find a Grave .
Obituary, Rev. Pat Leach, "Methodist Pastor at Hillsboro Dies," 8/21/1931, p. 16. "Deceased was born in Alabama and settled in Limestone County when he first came to Texas. He served in the Legislature from that county." Fort Worth Star-Telegram .
Memoir of Rev. Lucius Pat Leach, 66th Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, November 1931, pp. 51-52. "In 1909, he made the race for representative of Limestone County and was elected and served two terms in the State Legislature of Texas. Pat was always a man of convictions and even while in the Legislature he was on the right side of moral questions. Both the State and the Church had in him a true friend of prohibition and righteousness." Journal of the Central Texas Conference .
31st Legislature (1909) - Pat Leach, postoffice Big Hill, nativity Alabama, age 27 (born circa 1882), teacher, 9 years in Texas, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual .