Legrand W. Perce

Legrand W. Perce

Legrand Winfield Perce (born June 19, 1836 in Buffalo , New York , † March 16, 1911 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1870 and 1873 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After elementary school, Legrand Perce attended Wesleyan College in Lima (New York) and then until 1857 the Albany Law School , where he studied law until 1857. After his admission to the bar in the same year, he began to work in his new profession in Buffalo. During the Civil War , Perce rose to the ranks of the Union Army up to Brevet - Colonel .

After the war, Perce settled in Natchez , Mississippi. In 1867 he became a state bankruptcy administrator in his new home. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . After the state of Mississippi returned to the Union, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington . There he took on February 23, 1870 the seat for Mississippi that had been abandoned on January 12, 1861 by John Jones McRae . After he had won the regular congressional elections of 1870 in his constituency, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1873 . There he was chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor.

In 1873 Legrand Perce renounced another candidacy. He withdrew from politics and went back to work as a lawyer. He was also active in the real estate market in Chicago, where he had moved. He died there in 1911.

Web links

• Legrand W. Perce in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Legrand W. Perce in the database of Find a Grave (English)