Leonard Larson

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image =

| name = Leonard Melvin Larson

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| birth_date = November 11, 1912

| birth_place = Stornoway, Saskatchewan

| residence = Kamsack, Saskatchewan

| death_date = March 1977

| death_place =

| office1 = MLA for Pelly

| term_start1 = 1964

| term_end1 = 1967

| predecessor1 = Jim Barrie

| successor1 = Jim Barrie

| office2 = MLA for Pelly

| term_start2 = 1971

| term_end2 = 1977

| predecessor2 = Jim Barrie

| successor2 = Norm Lusney

| party = Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
New Democrat

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| occupation =

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Leonard Melvin Larson (November 11, 1912 – March 1977) was a farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Pelly from 1964 to 1967 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member and from 1971 to 1977 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

He was born on a farm near Stornoway, Saskatchewan. Larson helped found the Kamsack Credit Union and the Kamsack Community Clinic. He also served as chairman of the local school board, as an officer of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and as a member of the Saskatchewan Farmers' Union.{{cite web |url=http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=1149011692062_206_191_57_196&l=0&lvl=1&v=0&coll=1&itm=233118&rt=1&bill=1 |title=Leonard Larson fonds |publisher=Archives Canada |accessdate=2012-07-24 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130418234239/http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=1149011692062_206_191_57_196&l=0&lvl=1&v=0&coll=1&itm=233118&rt=1&bill=1 |archive-date=2013-04-18 |url-status=dead }} Larson ran unsuccessfully for the Yorkton seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the federal elections of 1962 and 1963. He was defeated by Jim Barrie when he ran for reelection to the Saskatchewan assembly in 1967.{{cite web|url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Elections-Results-by-Electoral-Division.pdf |title=Saskatchewan Election Results By Electoral Division |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |accessdate=2012-03-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112235500/http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Elections-Results-by-Electoral-Division.pdf |archivedate=2013-11-12 }} He died in office at the age of 64.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y746xOWGfcUC&pg=PA136 |title=Saskatchewan Politicians: Lives Past and Present |pages=136–7 |ISBN=0889771650 |publisher=Canadian Plains Research Center Press |year=2004 |last=Quiring |first=Brett |accessdate=2012-07-24}}