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U.S. House District 15
2026 Ohio U.S. House — District 15 — General Election · November 3, 2026
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Official name: Don Leonard
Office: U.S. House — District 15
Party or ballot designation: Democratic
Placement evidence: candidate on a current official county November list
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FEC committee ID: C00913491
FEC committee name: DON LEONARD FOR OHIO
Published email: [email protected]
Published email: [email protected]
Published website: https://www.donforohio.com/
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FEC committee ID: C00913491
FEC committee name: DON LEONARD FOR OHIO
Published email: [email protected]
Published email: [email protected]
Published website: https://www.donforohio.com/
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Against all odds, I’ve lived my version of the American Dream. After college, I spent two years with the U.S. Peace Corps in South America. I met my wife while I was a post-doc at Tulane University in Louisiana. For the last ten years, she and I have been blessed to be teachers at Ohio State. As a professor of city and regional planning, my day job was to empower students to think for themselves and reach for their dreams.
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Against all odds, I’ve lived my version of the American Dream. After college, I spent two years with the U.S. Peace Corps in South America. I met my wife while I was a post-doc at Tulane University in Louisiana. For the last ten years, she and I have been blessed to be teachers at Ohio State. As a professor of city and regional planning, my day job was to empower students to think for themselves and reach for their dreams.
My daughter was born at OSU Hospital on a frigid night in January of 2025. For three precious weeks I shut out the outside world and focused on caring for my wife and playing disc jockey for endless daddy-daughter dance parties.
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My daughter was born at OSU Hospital on a frigid night in January of 2025. For three precious weeks I shut out the outside world and focused on caring for my wife and playing disc jockey for endless daddy-daughter dance parties.
If you send me to Washington, I will call out cowards and stand up to bullies. But I will also reach out to fair-minded members of the political opposition from a place of civility. I was raised conservative. Today I am a proud Democrat. But regardless of what you believe or who you voted for, I will never question your moral character just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything..
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If you send me to Washington, I will call out cowards and stand up to bullies. But I will also reach out to fair-minded members of the political opposition from a place of civility. I was raised conservative. Today I am a proud Democrat. But regardless of what you believe or who you voted for, I will never question your moral character just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything..
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For more than 40 years, politicians have been trying to convince us that there isn’t enough to go around. While corporations and billionaires get trade deals, government bailouts and tax breaks, Ohio’s safety nets and public schools get gutted in the name of deficit reduction. Meanwhile, more and more folks are forced to take on second jobs, extra shifts, and credit card debt just to make ends meet. That isn’t how work is supposed to work.
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For more than 40 years, politicians have been trying to convince us that there isn’t enough to go around. While corporations and billionaires get trade deals, government bailouts and tax breaks, Ohio’s safety nets and public schools get gutted in the name of deficit reduction. Meanwhile, more and more folks are forced to take on second jobs, extra shifts, and credit card debt just to make ends meet. That isn’t how work is supposed to work.
My name is Don Leonard, and I am running to represent everyone in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District. I will show up for town halls even when the conversations get tough. I think that’s when we need democracy the most.
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My name is Don Leonard, and I am running to represent everyone in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District. I will show up for town halls even when the conversations get tough. I think that’s when we need democracy the most.
Working with my constituents at home and my colleagues in Washington, I will fight relentlessly for an economy that’s fair, prosperous, and sustainable—so that Buckeyes like my daughter can dare to dream ever bigger dreams.
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Working with my constituents at home and my colleagues in Washington, I will fight relentlessly for an economy that’s fair, prosperous, and sustainable—so that Buckeyes like my daughter can dare to dream ever bigger dreams.
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Candidate ID: H6OH15112
Name: LEONARD, DON RALPH
Office: House
State: OH
District: 15
Coverage start: 2025-04-01
Coverage end: 2026-06-30
Total receipts: $606657.60
Total disbursements: $354255.88
Cash on hand: $252401.72
Debts owed by committee: $10000.00
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