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Judge Humphrey Howe Leavitt, United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio Hon. Humphrey Howe Leavitt (June 18, 1796 – March 15, 1873) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and United States District Court Judge.[1] Contents 1 History 2 Career 3 References 4 Source 5 External links 6 Further reading 7 See also // History Born in Suffield, Connecticut to an old New England family involved in the purchase of the Western Reserve from the state of Connecticut, Leavitt moved to the Northwest Territory in 1800 with his parents, Capt. John Wheeler Leavitt and Silence (Fitch) Leavitt, who settled in what became Trumbull County, Ohio.[2] (The town of Leavittsburg in Trumbull County was named for the family.)[3] Career Letter from President Abraham Lincoln to United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton discussing Judge Humphrey Leavitt's decision in habeas corpus case After beginning his career as a schoolteacher, Leavitt moved into the law. In 1816 he was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Cadiz, Ohio. He moved to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1819, and he began his service as prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County in 1823. In 1825, Leavitt was elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and in 1827 he was elected to the Ohio State Senate. In 1828, he served as clerk of the common pleas and supreme court of Jefferson County in 1828. Leavitt was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John M. Goodenow. He was reelected to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses and served from December 6, 1830, until July 10, 1834, when he resigned to accept a judicial position. He was appointed by President Jackson to be judge of the United States District Court for the District of Ohio on June 30, 1834. Leavitt removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855, when the State was divided into two Federal districts, but he subsequently returned to Springfield in 1871. He served until March 31, 1871 – a term of 37 years on the federal bench – when he resigned. Among the major cases in which Judge Leavitt was involved was that of Ohio politician Clement Vallandingham, in which Leavitt wrote an opinion on Valandingham's well-known habeas corpus case, which Leavitt decided. Later, he began writing of his experiences. Leavitt was a member of the World's Convention on Prison Reform in London in 1872. He died in Springfield, Ohio, March 15, 1873, and was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. In a short memoir Leavitt wrote for his children, he described his feelings about a Congressman's job, which he described as "positively irksome and repulsive." Leavitt added: "In times of party division, it is impossible for anyone in Congress to preserve a conscience void of offense toward God and at the same time to bear true allegiance to the party by which he has been elected. The member must vote with his party irrespective of the public good or expect to be visited with the fiercest denunciation."[4] Leavitt was married to Marie Antoinette (McDowell) Leavitt, daughter of Dr. John McDowell, a physician, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania and Governor of Pennsylvania. Humphey Howe and Marie Leavitt had three sons: John McDowell Leavitt; Edward Howe Leavitt; and Francis Johnston Leavitt. All were born at Steubenville, Ohio. References ^ Humphrey Howe Leavitt (1796-1873), History of the Sixth Circuit, uscourts.gov ^ History of the Western Reserve, Harriet Taylor Upton, Harry Gardner Cutler, Vol. 1, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1910 ^ Humphrey Howe Leavitt, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Benjamin W. Dwight, New York, 1874 ^ Prominent Families of New York, Reissued by BilbioBazaar LLC, 2009, ISBN 9781115372282 Source Humphrey H. Leavitt at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress External links History of the Sixth Circuit, U.S. District Court, Humphrey Howe Leavitt, ca6.uscourts.gov Portrait of Humphrey Howe Leavitt, Potter Stewart United States Courthouse, Cincinnati, Ohio Further reading The Ohio officer and justices' guide : embracing the duties of justices of the peace, constables, and other township officers : including officers acting under the school law, with appropriate forms : also, directions and forms for executors, administrators & guardians, with treatises on the law of partnership and bailment, and the duties and liabilities of common carriers, carriers of passengers, and innkeepers : with a collection of forms of deeds, articles of agreement, bonds, powers of attorney, wills, &c. &c., Humphrey H. Leavitt, Printed by J. Turnbull, Steubenville, Ohio, 1843 See also John Leavitt (Ohio settler) John McDowell Leavitt John Brooks Leavitt  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.