the Second Brigade of the Philadelphia Militia. Leib was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the United States Senate by the state legislature in December 1808. Leib was elected to the term beginning on March 4, 1809, but assumed office on January 9, 1809, following the resignation of Samuel Maclay. In 1809, he was a member of the committee that formed the "Whig Society of Pennsylvania". He served as a U.S. Senator until February 14, 1814, and resigned to serve as postmaster of Philadelphia from 1814 to 1815. He returned to the Pennsylvania House for a third time, from 1817 until 1818 and served as a Pennsylvania State Senator for the 1st district from 1818 until 1821. He became prothonotary of the United States district court in Philadelphia in November 1822 and served in that role until his death in December 1822. He was interred at St. John's Lutheran Churchyard in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia. In 1924, he was reinterred to the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia when the church and burial ground were demolished during the construction of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. Bibliography A Portrait of the evils of democracy, submitted to the consideration of the people of Maryland, Baltimore Printed, 1816 References |- 1760 births 1822 deaths 18th-century American physicians 18th-century American politicians 19th-century American politicians Pennsylvania postmasters Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Democratic-Republican Party United States senators Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Pennsylvania prothonotaries Pennsylvania state senators People of colonial Pennsylvania People of Pennsylvania in the American Revolution Physicians from Philadelphia Politicians from Philadelphia United States senators from Pennsylvania