Personal Background
- Leo was 55 years old the first year of the administration [1.1 script only].
- Both Leo's father and his grandfather were alcoholics. Late one night, Leo's father came home very drunk, went out to the garage, and shot himself in the head after an argument with Leo's mother [1.13].
- He has two sisters -- Elizabeth [1.10] and Josephine [2.8] -- and a nephew who gave him an ashtray he made at summer camp [1.3].
- Jenny, Leo's wife, left him after he admitted that for the duration of the Bartlet Administration, Leo considered his job more important than his marriage [1.4]. After he and Jenny split, Leo moved into a hotel because he wanted Jenny to have the house [1.6]. Jenny asked Leo for a divorce, [1.6] and when the papers arrived, Leo signed them [2.7].
- Leo's daughter, Mallory [1.1], dated Sam Seaborn, to Leo's dismay and amusement [1.18]. Sam also once hit on Leo's wife, Jenny, at a Party fundraiser [1.1].
- Leo spent Christmas Eve, 2001, with Jordan Kendall. Jed Bartlet said Leo and Jordan were like a screwball comedy [3.9]
- Jed and Leo are such good friends that Leo likens missing the President's last debate to missing his brother's wedding [4.6].
- Leo believes that he has a responsibility to live his life with honesty and integrity to honor the lives of the men who died rescuing him during the Korean War [5.14].
