{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Leonard Melvin Larson | caption = | birth_date = November 11, 1912 | birth_place = Stornoway, 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<br/>New Democrat | occupation = }} '''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.<ref name="quiring"/> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> Larson ran unsuccessfully for the Yorkton seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the federal elections of 1962 and 1963.<ref name="quiring"/> He was defeated by Jim Barrie when he ran for reelection to the Saskatchewan assembly in 1967.<ref name="results">{{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 }}</ref> He died in office at the age of 64.<ref name="quiring">{{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}}</ref>
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Son of Ludvig Larson. Born in Norway.Sør Odal .
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