Leo Ryan

Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr. (5 May 1925–18 November 1978) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. Representative from the 11th Congressional District of California from 1973 until he was killed in Guyana by members of the People's Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre.

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Leo Ryan was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. Throughout his early life his family moved frequently, through Illinois, Florida, New York, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts. He graduated from Campion Jesuit High School http://www.campion-knights.org/http://www.campionforever.org/ in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1943, and then served with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 as a submariner. http://www.campion-knights.org/notables.html He graduated from Nebraska's Creighton University with an A.B. in 1949 and an M.S. from the same in 1951. He served as a teacher, school administrator and San Francisco councilman from 1956 to 1962, at which time he was elected mayor of South San Francisco, serving less than a year before taking a seat in the California State Assembly, which he held through 1972, when he was elected to the United States House of Representatives.

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