O'BRIEN, LEO WILLIAM, a Representative from New York; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y.,
September 21, 1900; graduated from the Niagara University, Niagara, N.Y.,1922;
journalist; radio and television commentator; member of the Albany Port, N.Y.,
District Commission, 1935-1952; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States
Representative William T. Byrne; reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses
and served until his resignation on December 30, 1966 (April 1, 1952-December
30, 1966); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in
1966; chair, Albany County Planning Board and Adirondack Study Commission; died
on May 4, 1982, in Albany, N.Y.; interment at St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N.Y.
