Legrand W. Perce

Legrand Perce Winfield ( 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 electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Legrand Perce attended Wesleyan College in Lima (New York ) and then the Albany Law School, where he studied until 1857 to 1857 Jura. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began in Buffalo to work in his new profession. During the Civil War Perce rose in the ranks of the Union army to Brevet Colonel.

After the war, Perce settled in Natchez in Mississippi. In 1867 he was state bankruptcy trustee in his new home. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. After the resumption of the State of Mississippi to the Union, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he took on February 23, 1870 on January 12, 1861 discontinued by John Jones McRae seat for Mississippi again. After winning the regular congressional elections of 1870, in his constituency, he could remain until March 3, 1873 in Congress. He was chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor.

In 1873, Legrand Perce gave up another candidacy. He retired from politics and resumed the lawyer. In addition, he was in Chicago, where he had moved, worked in the real estate market. There he also died in 1911.