Mason Spencer [SEP] position held
Mason Spencer
Leonard Mason Spencer (June 11, 1892 – June 12, 1962) was a lawyer and planter from Tallulah, Louisiana, who was from 1924 to 1936 a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Madison Parish, located alongside the rich farming delta of the Mississippi River.
Background.
A native of Baton Rouge, Spencer was married in 1917 in an Episcopal ceremony to the former Rosa Vertner Sevier (1891-1978), originally from Kosciusko, Mississippi. Rosa was a great-great
District based in Alexandria, a position that he held until his election in 1932 to the U.S. House. In Congress, he was the chairman of the House Committee on Elections No. 1.
In 1936, Dear attempted to succeed Governor James A. Noe of Monroe, who had briefly served upon the death of Oscar K. Allen of Winnfield. He was defeated by another Democrat, the pro-Long Richard Webster Leche of New Orleans. A third candidate, Mason Spencer, an outgoing state representative from Madison Parish, ran