Joseph Bloomfield Leake (April 1, 1828 – June 8, 1913) was an attorney and an Iowa State Senator who entered the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Leake was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives on the Republican ticket and served during the war session of 1861.

[3] Leake resigned his seat in the state senate and became a captain of Company G of the 20th Iowa Infantry.

[1] On September 29, 1863, in an engagement called the Battle of Stirling's Plantation near Morganza, Louisiana Leake was injured and captured by the Confederates.

Some of the soldiers from the 19th Iowa Infantry presented Leake with a new sword to replace the one he lost when he was taken prisoner.