James Albert Smith Leach lived from October 15, 1942 to December 11, 2024 and was an American academic and politician. He served as the ninth chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa from 1977 to 2007, a thirty-year run as a Republican representing what was numbered the 1st district until 2003 and then the 2nd district. In Congress he chaired the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services from 1995 to 2001 and sponsored the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, a notable piece of banking legislation of the twentieth century. In 2022 he broke with the Republican Party and registered as a Democrat.
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RoleAcademic and U.S. Representative from Iowa 2 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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Representative Jim Leach, lead House sponsor; the Act is named for him.
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Early life
James Albert Smith Leach was born in Davenport, Iowa on October 15, 1942.
Death
Leach died on December 11, 2024, at a hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, from a heart attack and a stroke, at the age of 82.
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was an American academic and politician.
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James Albert Smith Leach was an American academic and politician. He served as ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013 and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa (1977-2007).
- In Legal System: Law of the United States, James Albert Smith Leach (October 15, 1942, December 11, 2024) was an American academic and politician. He served as ni
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He sponsored the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act as chair of the House banking committee.
Jim Leach appears among the Modern Legislators and Statute Authors because of the statute he sponsored. He represented Iowa in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 2007 and chaired the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services from 1995 to 2001. In that role he sponsored the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, a notable piece of banking legislation of the twentieth century, which the atlas records as authored by him. He later served as the ninth chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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