Ada County Prosecuting Attorney Was elected prosecuting attorney in
Ada County, Idaho, in 1974 and served two terms.
Attorney general At age 31, Leroy was elected Attorney General of Idaho in 1978, easily defeating Boise attorney Mike Wetherell for the open seat. At the time, he was the youngest attorney general in the nation.
Gubernatorial Leroy was Republican nominee for
governor in 1986, but narrowly lost in the general election to former
Democratic governor
Cecil Andrus.
Nuclear waste negotiator Leroy was appointed the first head of the
Office of the United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator in 1990, which identified Native American tribes that could host
spent nuclear fuel. In a 1991 speech to the
National Congress of American Indians, Leroy stated the Native American's tradition of long-term culture made them especially suited for storing nuclear waste, including quotes from
Chief Seattle. This led to sharp negative reactions from the audience, calling it
Machiavellian and
Orwellian.
Idaho's 1st Congressional District In 1994, Leroy ran for
Congress in the first district and finished second in the Republican primary, behind
Helen Chenoweth with 27.8% of the vote. Leroy announced his candidacy for the open seat in
Congress in Idaho's
first district on May 12, 2017. He lost the Republican primary in May 2018 to
Russ Fulcher, taking second with 15.6% of the vote. == Personal ==