ARENDS, Leslie Cornelius
1895–1985
Office
Representative
State/Territory
Illinois
Party
Republican
Congress(es)
74th (1935–1937), 75th (1937–1939), 76th (1939–1941), 77th (1941–1943), 78th (1943–1945), 79th (1945–1947), 80th (1947–1949), 81st (1949–1951), 82nd (1951–1953), 83rd (1953–1955), 84th (1955–1957), 85th (1957–1959), 86th (1959–1961), 87th (1961–1963), 88th (1963–1965), 89th (1965–1967), 90th (1967–1969), 91st (1969–1971), 92nd (1971–1973), 93rd (1973–1975)
Leadership Positions
Republican Whip - 78th, 79th, 80th, 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th, 85th, 86th, 87th, 88th, 89th, 90th, 91st, 92nd, 93rd
ARENDS, Leslie Cornelius, a Representative from Illinois; born in Melvin, Ford County, Ill., September 27, 1895; attended public and high schools and Oberlin (Ohio) College; during the First World War served in the United States Navy in 1918 and 1919; engaged in agricultural pursuits and banking; in 1935 became member of the Ford County (Ill.) Farm Bureau and in 1938 a member of the board of trustees of the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the nineteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his resignation December 31, 1974; minority whip (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses, Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, and Eighty-fourth through Ninety-third Congresses), majority whip (Eightieth Congress and Eighty-third Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; died on July 17, 1985, in Naples, Fla.; interment in Melvin Cemetery, Melvin, Ill.
View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
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Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, IL
Papers:
ca. 1930-1975, 65.5 linear feet.
The Leslie C. Arends collection consists of three major types of material: audiovisual items, papers, and photographs. The papers span Leslie Arend's career as a U.S. Representative from the 17th congressional district in Illinois. The records document: audiovisual, departments, general, legislation, photographs, positions, post office, publications, speeches, and White House press releases. A finding aid is available in the repository and at The Dirksen Center, Pekin, Illinois.
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
Washington, DC
Oral History:
Transcript in the Oral History Collection of the Association of Former Members of Congress.
Restricted. Sound recording in the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
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Ralph Nader Congress Project. Citizens Look at Congress: Leslie C. Arends, Republican Representative from Illinois. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers, 1972.
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