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United States
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C.  20549

Form N-Q
Quarterly Schedule of Portfolio Holdings of Registered Management Investment Companies




811-1704

(Investment Company Act File Number)


Federated American Leaders Fund, Inc.
_______________________________________________________________

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)



Federated Investors Funds
5800 Corporate Drive
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15237-7000
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)


(412) 288-1900
(Registrant's Telephone Number)


John W. McGonigle, Esquire
Federated Investors Tower
1001 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-3779
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
(Notices should be sent to the Agent for Service)






Date of Fiscal Year End:  3/31/09


Date of Reporting Period:  Quarter ended 6/30/08







Item 1.                      Schedule of Investments



Federated American Leaders Fund, Inc.
 
Portfolio of Investments
 
June 30, 2008 (unaudited)
 
 
Shares
       
Value
     
COMMON STOCKS--99.5%
     
     
Consumer Discretionary--7.7%
     
 
1,164,024
1,2
Ford Motor Co.
 
$
5,598,955
 
585,800
 
Leggett and Platt, Inc.
   
9,823,866
 
144,800
 
Magna International, Inc., Class A
   
8,577,952
 
346,100
 
Omnicom Group, Inc.
   
15,532,968
 
816,000
 
Regal Entertainment Group
   
12,468,480
 
532,500
 
TJX Cos., Inc.
   
16,757,775
 
534,900
 
Walt Disney Co.
   
16,688,880
     
TOTAL
   
85,448,876
     
Consumer Staples--8.6%
     
 
262,300
 
Altria Group, Inc.
   
5,392,888
 
288,300
 
Coca-Cola Femsa SA, ADR
   
16,257,237
 
193,800
 
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
   
11,585,364
 
158,800
 
Kraft Foods, Inc., Class A
   
4,517,860
 
367,500
 
Kroger Co.
   
10,609,725
 
262,300
 
Philip Morris International, Inc.
   
12,954,997
 
247,100
 
Reynolds American, Inc.
   
11,532,157
 
414,200
 
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
   
23,278,040
     
TOTAL
   
96,128,268
     
Energy--16.6%
     
 
151,600
 
BP PLC, ADR
   
10,546,812
 
338,700
 
Chevron Corp.
   
33,575,331
 
284,600
 
ConocoPhillips
   
26,863,394
 
235,100
 
ENSCO International, Inc.
   
18,981,974
 
370,900
 
Exxon Mobil Corp.
   
32,687,417
 
170,000
 
Hess Corp.
   
21,452,300
 
258,600
 
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
   
23,237,796
 
437,300
 
Valero Energy Corp.
   
18,008,014
     
TOTAL
   
185,353,038
     
Financials--22.9%
     
 
312,900
 
AON Corp.
   
14,374,626
 
588,300
 
Ace Ltd.
   
32,409,447
 
533,600
 
Aflac, Inc.
   
33,510,080
 
330,100
 
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd.
   
10,163,779
 
184,400
 
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
   
32,251,560
 
90,400
 
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
   
5,837,128
 
956,400
 
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
   
32,814,084
 
585,100
 
Loews Corp.
   
27,441,190
 
231,300
 
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
   
7,334,523
 
687,100
 
Morgan Stanley
   
24,783,697
 
284,600
 
Nationwide Financial Services, Inc., Class A
   
13,663,646
 
239,400
 
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
   
10,693,998
 
438,900
 
Wells Fargo & Co.
   
10,423,875
     
TOTAL
   
255,701,633
     
Health Care--8.9%
     
 
310,000
 
Abbott Laboratories
   
16,420,700
 
634,100
 
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
   
13,018,073
 
494,800
 
Covidien Ltd.
   
23,695,972
 
352,300
1
Forest Laboratories, Inc., Class A
   
12,238,902
 
453,000
 
Johnson & Johnson
   
29,146,020
 
292,600
 
Pfizer, Inc.
   
5,111,722
     
TOTAL
   
99,631,389
     
Industrials--10.2%
     
 
258,200
 
3M Co.
   
17,968,138
 
312,500
 
Dover Corp.
   
15,115,625
 
190,500
 
Eaton Corp.
   
16,186,785
 
266,500
 
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
   
12,661,415
 
186,800
 
L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.
   
16,974,516
 
232,000
 
Lockheed Martin Corp.
   
22,889,120
 
186,500
 
Northrop Grumman Corp.
   
12,476,850
     
TOTAL
   
114,272,449
     
Information Technology--12.0%
     
 
494,600
1
Dell, Inc.
   
10,821,848
 
250,200
1,2
Fiserv, Inc.
   
11,351,574
 
608,900
 
Hewlett-Packard Co.
   
26,919,469
 
176,500
 
IBM Corp.
   
20,920,545
 
330,700
 
Intel Corp.
   
7,103,436
 
800,500
1
Oracle Corp.
   
16,810,500
 
735,400
1
Symantec Corp.
   
14,229,990
 
413,100
1
Western Digital Corp.
   
14,264,343
 
866,100
 
Xerox Corp.
   
11,744,316
     
TOTAL
   
134,166,021
     
Materials--6.0%
     
 
479,100
 
Alcoa, Inc.
   
17,065,542
 
337,500
 
Dow Chemical Co.
   
11,782,125
 
180,400
 
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.
   
21,141,076
 
200,700
 
PPG Industries, Inc.
   
11,514,159
 
257,500
1
Pactiv Corp.
   
5,466,725
     
TOTAL
   
66,969,627
     
Telecommunication Services--3.4%
     
 
551,300
 
AT&T, Inc.
   
18,573,297
 
550,842
 
Verizon Communications, Inc.
   
19,499,807
     
TOTAL
   
38,073,104
     
Utilities--3.2%
     
 
1,189,200
 
Duke Energy Corp.
   
20,668,296
 
339,200
1,2
NRG Energy, Inc.
   
14,551,680
     
TOTAL
   
35,219,976
     
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (IDENTIFIED COST $1,123,199,486)
   
1,110,964,381
     
MUTUAL FUND—3.1%
     
 
35,269,980
3,4,5
Prime Value Obligations Fund, Institutional Shares, 2.63% (AT NET ASSET VALUE)
   
35,269,980
     
TOTAL INVESTMENTS --- 102.6%
(IDENTIFIED COST $1,158,469,466)6
   
1,146,234,361
     
OTHER ASSETS AND LIABILITIES --- NET --- (2.6)%7
   
(29,333,594)
     
TOTAL NET ASSETS --- 100%
 
$
1,116,900,767

1
Non-income producing security.
2
All or a portion of this security is temporarily on loan to unaffiliated broker/dealers.
 
As of June 30, 2008, securities subject to this type of arrangement and related collateral were as follows:
 
Market Value of Securities Loaned
Market Value of Collateral
 
$24,385,920
$26,412,562
3
Affiliated company.
4
7-Day net yield.
5
All or a portion of this security is held as collateral for securities lending.
6
At June 30, 2008, the cost of investments for federal tax purposes was $1,158,469,466.  The net unrealized depreciation of investments for federal tax purposes was $12,235,105.  This consists of net unrealized appreciation from investments for those securities having an excess of value over cost of $72,634,945 and net unrealized depreciation from investments for those securities having an excess of cost over value of $84,870,050.
7
Assets, other than investments in securities, less liabilities.

 
Note: The categories of investments are shown as a percentage of total net assets at June 30, 2008.

 
Investment Valuation
 
In calculating its net asset value (NAV), the Fund generally values investments as follows:
 
·  
Equity securities listed on an exchange or traded through a regulated market system are valued at their last reported sale price or official closing price in their principal exchange or market.
 
·  
Shares of other mutual funds are valued based upon their reported NAVs.
 
·  
Fixed-income securities acquired with remaining maturities greater than 60 days are fair valued using price evaluations provided by a pricing service approved by the Board of Directors (the “Directors”).
 
·  
Fixed-income securities acquired with remaining maturities of 60 days or less are valued at their cost (adjusted for the accretion of any discount or amortization of any premium).
 
·  
Derivative contracts listed on exchanges are valued at their reported settlement or closing price.
 
·  
Over-the-counter (OTC) derivative contracts are fair valued using price evaluations provided by a pricing service approved by the Directors.
 
If the Fund cannot obtain a price or price evaluation from a pricing service for an investment, the Fund may attempt to value the investment based upon the mean of bid and asked quotations or fair value the investment based on price evaluations, from one or more dealers. If any price, quotation, price evaluation or other pricing source is not readily available when the NAV is calculated, the Fund uses the fair value of the investment determined in accordance with the procedures described below. There can be no assurance that the Fund could purchase or sell an investment at the price used to calculate the Fund’s NAV.
 
 
Fair Valuation and Significant Events Procedures
 
The Directors have authorized the use of pricing services to provide evaluations of the current fair value of certain investments for purposes of calculating the NAV. Factors considered by pricing services in evaluating an investment include the yields or prices of investments of comparable quality, coupon, maturity, call rights and other potential prepayments, terms and type, reported transactions, indications as to values from dealers, and general market conditions. Some pricing services provide a single price evaluation reflecting the bid-side of the market for an investment (a “bid” evaluation). Other pricing services offer both bid evaluations and price evaluations indicative of a price between the prices bid and asked for the investment (a “mid” evaluation). The Fund normally uses bid evaluations for U.S. Treasury and Agency securities. The Fund normally uses mid evaluations for other types of fixed-income securities and OTC derivative contracts. In the event that market quotations and price evaluations are not available for an investment, the fair value of the investment is determined in accordance with procedures adopted by the Directors.
 


The Directors also have adopted procedures requiring an investment to be priced at its fair value whenever the Adviser determines that a significant event affecting the value of the investment has occurred between the time as of which the price of the investment would otherwise be determined and the time as of which the NAV is computed. An event is considered significant if there is both an affirmative expectation that the investment’s value will change in response to the event and a reasonable basis for quantifying the resulting change in value. Examples of significant events that may occur after the close of the principal market on which a security is traded, or after the time of a price evaluation provided by a pricing service or a dealer, include:
 
·  
With respect to securities traded in foreign markets, significant trends in U.S. equity markets or in the trading of foreign securities index futures or options contracts;
 
·  
With respect to price evaluations of fixed-income securities determined before the close of regular trading on the NYSE, actions by the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee and other significant trends in U.S. fixed-income markets;
 
·  
Political or other developments affecting the economy or markets in which an issuer conducts its operations or its securities are traded; and
 
·  
Announcements concerning matters such as acquisitions, recapitalizations, litigation developments, a natural disaster affecting the issuer’s operations or regulatory changes or market developments affecting the issuer’s industry.
 
The Directors have approved the use of a pricing service to determine the fair value of equity securities traded principally in foreign markets when the Adviser determines that there has been a significant trend in the U.S. equity markets or in index futures trading. For other significant events, the Fund may seek to obtain more current quotations or price evaluations from alternative pricing sources. If a reliable alternative pricing source is not available, the Fund will determine the fair value of the investment using another method approved by the Directors.
 

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the Fund’s investments.  These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

·  
Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical securities
·  
Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)
·  
Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The inputs or methodology used for valuing securities are not an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The following is a summary of the inputs used, as of June 30, 2008, in valuing the Fund’s assets carried at fair value:

 
 
Valuation Inputs
Investments in
Securities
Level 1 – Quoted Prices
$1,146,234,361
Level 2 – Other Significant Observable Inputs
---
Level 3 – Significant Unobservable Inputs
---
    Total
$1,146,234,361

The following acronym is used throughout this portfolio:
 
ADR
--American Depositary Receipt



 
Item 2.                      Controls and Procedures

(a) The registrant’s Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in rule 30a-3(c) under the Act) are effective in design and operation and are sufficient to form the basis of the certifications required by Rule 30a-(2) under the Act, based on their evaluation of these disclosure controls and procedures within 90 days of the filing date of this report on Form N-Q.

(b) There were no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in rule 30a-3(d) under the Act) during the last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 3.                      Exhibits




SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Registrant
Federated American Leaders Fund, Inc.
   
By
/S/ Richard A. Novak
 
Richard A. Novak
 
Principal Financial Officer
Date
August 21, 2008
   
   
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
   
   
By
/S/ J. Christopher Donahue
 
J. Christopher Donahue
 
Principal Executive Officer
Date
August 21, 2008
   
   
By
/S/ Richard A. Novak
 
Richard A. Novak
 
Principal Financial Officer
Date
August 21, 2008