Leonard Andrew Scheele was an American physician and public servant. He was appointed the seventh Surgeon General of the United States from 1948 to 1956.
Scheele was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. While in high school, he worked in his fathers pharmacy and planned to enter medicine. For his undergraduate education, Scheele chose the University of Michigan over Indiana University, citing the formers medical reputation but ended up following his future spouse, then a dental student, to Detroit. He received his M.D. in 1934 from the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery .
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