Leo Pursley was born in Hartford City , Indiana , to Alexander Nelson and Mary Jeanette ( née Sloan ) Pursley . His father was a local Democratic politician and delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention . He studied at Mount St. Mary 's Seminary of the West in Cincinnati , and was ordained to the priesthood on June 11 , 1927 . He served as a curate at St. Mary Church in Lafayette , St. Lawrence Church in Muncie , and St. Patrick Church in Fort Wayne ; and as pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Warsaw and of St. John the Baptist Church in Fort Wayne
1940 Democratic National Convention
1940 Democratic National Convention
Leo Aloysius Pursley