Leon Snider

Leon Samuel Snider was an Australian politician.
He was born in Melbourne to Polish immigrant fruit merchant Phillip Snider and Diare Rachel Pahl. He attended Scotch College and became a theatre proprietor, moving to Sydney in 1925. On 15 May 1930 he married Ruth Cohen, with whom he had three children. He was a partner in the film distribution company Snider and Dean, and also served on Woollahra Council from 1935 to 1948. From 1943 to 1965 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, first as a member of the Liberal Party and from 1959 as a Country Party member. Snider died in Sydney in 1965.