Francis Ellington Leupp

Francis Ellington Leupp was born in New York, New York on January 2, 1849.  He attended Williams College and graduated at the age of 21 in 1870. He worked at the New York Evening Post as assistant editor, then became editor of the Syracuse Herald, and contributed articles to the New York Evening Post who named him the newspaper’s official Washington correspondent.

Leupp was a member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners from 1862 to 1895.  In 1903, he was selected by President Theodore Roosevelt to investigate alleged wrongdoing by officers at the Kiowa Indian Agency at Anadarko, Oklahoma.  Within a year of completing his report on the Kiowa Agency, he was appointed to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Roosevelt, a position in which he served from 1905 to 1909.