Leonard Seeley, former San Leandro mayor, dies

HAYWARD – Leonard Seeley, a realtor, former mayor of San Leandro, and prominent local Democrat, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 65.

Seeley was born in Nyack, New York. He moved to San Leandro after service in World War II and entered the real estate business.

He was elected to the San Leandro City Council in 1948 and served as mayor of San Leandro from 1950 until 1952.

He moved to Hayward in 1953, and in 1955 was appointed to the city planning commission, where he served for eight years.

Seeley was appointed to the State Real Estate Commission in 1961 by Governor Edmund G. Brown, and was elected president of the Southern Alameda County Board of Realtors in 1962. He was appointed a state inheritance tax appraiser in 1964 by Alan Cranston, who at the time was state controller. Also in 1964 Seeley founded South Hayward Democratic club, in which he was active until his death.

He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus, no. 1615 of Hayward and American Legion Post no. 117 of San Leandro. Seeley was appointed to the city board of adjustments in 1971. He resigned his post last month because of poor health. Seeley is survived by his wife, Harriet, and a daughter, Dorothy McClintock of Suffern, New York.

Services will be held Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the Hayward Mortuary, 22297 Mission Blvd.
The Daily Review, (Hayward, CA, Second Front Page, Sunday March 10, 1974

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