Le Roy J. Simmons (also spelled LeRoy and Leroy) was a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1945 to 1952. Simmons was the second African American to become a member of the Assembly, after Lucian H. Palmer, but the first to preside over it. He was born on July 25, 1905, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Simmons was a salesman. He died on May 8, 1973.
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- "2005-02-15 Assembly Journal". Wisconsin Legislature. Archived from the original on 4 Oct 2018.
- THE WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK 1950. 1950. p. 56. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
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