Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 12th district
In office December 7, 1857 – March 3, 1859
Preceded by
John G. Montgomery
Succeeded by
George W. Scranton
Personal details
Born
(1813-11-13)November 13, 1813 Hemlock Township, Pennsylvania
Died
September 11, 1877(1877-09-11) (aged 63) Danville, Pennsylvania
Political party
Democratic
Paul Leidy (November 13, 1813 – September 11, 1877) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, serving one term from 1857 to 1859.
PaulLeidy (November 13, 1813 – September 11, 1877) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, serving one term from...
William L. Dewart (D) ▌12. John G. Montgomery (D), until April 24, 1857 ▌PaulLeidy (D), from December 7, 1857 ▌13. William H. Dimmick (D) ▌14. Galusha A...
March 4, 1857 – April 24, 1857 Preceded by Henry M. Fuller Succeeded by PaulLeidy Personal details Born John Gallagher Montgomery (1805-06-27)June 27, 1805...
February 14, 1806 Owen D. Leib Democratic 11th March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1847 PaulLeidy Democratic 12th December 7, 1857 – March 4, 1859 George G. Leiper Jacksonian...
Gillis (D) John Dick (R) 35th (1857–1859) William H. Keim (R) PaulLeidy (D) John Paul Verree (R) William Millward (R) John Wood (R) John Hickman (D)...
September 2, 1856 35th PA 12 John G. Montgomery (D) Died April 24, 1857 PaulLeidy (D) October 13, 1857 35th PA 8 J. Glancy Jones (D) Resigned October 30...
as the Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy site, is now a National Historic Landmark. Foulke contacted paleontologist Joseph Leidy, and together they recovered...
Jones D-PA William High Keim R-PA James Landy D-PA William Lawrence D-OH PaulLeidy D-PA Joseph C. McKibbin D-CA Joseph Miller D-OH John Gallagher Montgomery...
imprisonment. On 4 July 2014, Van der Sloot married a Peruvian woman named Leidy Figueroa, whom he met while she was selling goods inside the prison. She...
sic Vavrek, M.J.; Murray, A.M.; Bell, P.R. (2016). "Xiphactinus audax Leidy, 1870 from the Puskwaskau Formation (Santonian to Campanian) of northwestern...
Nebraska, Leidy found the vertebrae of an extinct Canis species that he reported the following year under the name C. dirus. The name C. primaevus (Leidy 1854)...
valens, first described and named as a species of Poekilopleuron by Joseph Leidy in 1870. The first described fossil specimen was a bone obtained secondhand...
southeastern Montana. This specimen, ANSP 8568, was described by Joseph Leidy in 1872 as belonging to the dermal armor of a reptile or an armadillo-like...
December 7, 1857 01st term John B. Clark D MO-03 December 7, 1857 01st term PaulLeidy D PA-12 December 7, 1857 01st term Left the House in 1859. William E....
given to Leidy. They were described in the same year as Hadrosaurus foulkii, giving a slightly better picture of the form of a hadrosaur. Leidy provided...
recognized species, Aublysodon mirandus, was named by paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1868. It is sometimes considered dubious now, because the type specimen...
Americas were only known from isolated teeth discovered in Montana by Joseph Leidy in 1856. The discovery of this genus gave North American paleontologists...
such bones as "petrified horse hoofs". Hayden sent his specimen to Joseph Leidy, who identified it as half of a tail vertebra and tentatively assigned it...
Astrodon in 1859. However, he did not attach a specific epithet, so Joseph Leidy is credited with naming Astrodon johnstoni (the type species) in 1865, with...