Local Politics
Leckie first stood for election to Walsall Council in the Bridge Ward in 1903, describing himself as a Progressive Candidate. However he was beaten by a local solicitor. This was only a temporary setback however, for in 1905 Leckie became a member of the Walsall Education Committee and he was Chairman of the Committee from 1930-37. He became a member of Walsall Town Council in 1916. Elections to the council were suspended because of the First World War and when in April 1916 a sitting councillor in Hatherton Ward resigned to devote more time to his business, Leckie was proposed for co-option and chosen over a candidate put forward by the Labour Party and Trades Council. He retained his seat comfortably at the municipal elections of 1919 and went on to a distinguished local government career. He was later an alderman of what was by then the County Borough of Walsall from 1930 until 1937. He was Mayor of Walsall in 1926-27. In 1933 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of Education Committees. In 1937 he was made an honorary freeman of Walsall. He also served as a Justice of the Peace.
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