David Harris Leake (July 13, 1875 – May 8, 1955) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing Fluvanna and Goochland counties, and as general attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

[1] He attended the county schools of Goochland, the Charlotte Hall Military Academy in Maryland, and Washington and Lee University.

[1] Through his maternal grandfather, Col. David Bullock Harris of the Confederate Army, he was the great-grandson of Frederick Harris of Fredericks Hall in Louisa County, president of the Louisa Railroad, which became the Virginia Central Railroad (later the C&O).

[1] Leake joined the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's legal department in 1899 and was appointed general attorney in 1938.

He held that post until he retired on June 30, 1947, to become a member of the Advisory Council of the Virginia Railway Association.