Leslie Cochran
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Leslie Cochran on South Congress
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Albert Leslie Cochran June 24, 1951 Miami, Florida |
| Died | March 8, 2012 (aged 60) Austin, Texas |
| Cause of death | Head trauma |
| Resting place | Cook-Walden Capital Park Cemetery |
| Residence | Austin, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Florida State University |
| Occupation | Activist |
| Years active | 1999-2012 |
| Home town | Austin, Texas |
Albert Leslie Cochran (June 24, 1951 – March 8, 2012) was an American homeless man, peace activist, cross-dresser, urban outdoorsman and outspoken critic of police treatment of the homeless. Cochran was known in Austin as Leslie.
Cochran was considered the man who personified "Keep Austin Weird."
Cochran was born on June 24, 1951 and raised in the Redland district of Homestead, Florida. Miami, Florida. He was the third of six children (3 boys and 3 girls) born to Albert and Enid (née Atwater) Cochran, both now deceased, and had an identical twin brother who died at birth. He also has a cousin named Gabriel Lujan who lives in Round Rock, Texas. He attended Florida State University in Tallahassee on an academic scholarship, but never graduated. He lived in the Pacific Northwest and at one time worked as a truck driver frequently traveling up and down the West Coast. Cochran told the Austin American-Statesman that he was briefly married from 1985 to 1986. He spent nine months in the Naval Reserve in 1974-75, worked for Safeway grocery stores in Seattle, skinned road-kill in Colorado and tanned the hides, worked as a disc jockey near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, lived in a converted bookmobile in Shreveport, Louisiana, Tampa, Florida, and Atlanta, and then took a year to ride a tricycle to Austin in January 1996.
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