Eugene Walter Leake (July 13, 1877 – August 23, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the 9th congressional district for one term from 1907 to 1909.
He attended the public schools and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated from New York Law School in 1898.
[1] Leake was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1909, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1908.
After leaving Congress, he was general counsel for the Adams Express Co. from 1927-1932.
In 1931, he was elected chairman of the board of directors of the American Railway Express Co., and was a director of Loew's, Inc.[2] He died in New York City on August 23, 1959, and was interred in Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey.