William M. Levy

William Mallory Levy (born October 31, 1827 in Isle of Wight , Isle of Wight County , Virginia , †  August 14, 1882 in Saratoga , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Levy attended the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg after primary school until 1844 . During the Mexican-American War he was a lieutenant in a volunteer unit from Virginia. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1851, he began to work in Norfolk in his new profession. In 1852 Levy moved to Natchitoches , Louisiana, where he also practiced as a lawyer. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1859 and 1861 he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives . During the Civil War he rose in the army of the Confederate States of up to major.

In the congressional election of 1874 , Levy was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded Republican George Luke Smith on March 4, 1875 . Since he was no longer nominated by his party in 1876, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1877 . In 1879 Levy was a member of a convention to revise the Louisiana Constitution. In the same year he became an associate judge on the Louisiana Supreme Court . He held this office until his death on August 14, 1882 in Saratoga. He was buried in Natchitoches.

Web links

• William M. Levy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William M. Levy in the database of Find a Grave (English)