Leverich was born, raised, and lived most of his life in the town of Angelo in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
[5] Six years later, as a member of the Senate, he worked to pass a ban on "colored" oleo, so that, in the state of Wisconsin, you could only purchase the pallid, uncolored oleomargarine, which resembled a lump of lard.
He had previously benefited from a state government apportionment practice which generally sacrificed equal representation for district compactness and strict adherence to county boundaries.
In the 1964 court-ordered redistricting plan, the Wisconsin Supreme Court radically split from the past adherence to county boundaries in an attempt to draw districts with more equitable population distribution.
[6][8] Leverich retired from local government a few years later, turning over his seat as chairman of the Angelo Town Board to his son, Tom, in 1971.
Although Leverich was not a pilot, he was interested in aviation, and for many years offered to sell a tract of his property for the creation of a small municipal airport.
When Tom retired in 2013, he ended a 124 year streak of the Leverich family governing as chairmen of Angelo, Wisconsin.