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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Levy attended after elementary school until 1844, the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. During the Mexican War he was a lieutenant of a volunteer unit from Virginia. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1851 admitted to the bar he began in Norfolk to work in his new profession. 1852 Levy moved to Natchitoches in Louisiana, where he also practiced law. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1859 and 1861 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Louisiana. During the Civil War he rose to become a major in the army of the Confederate States.

In the congressional elections of 1874 Levy was in the fourth electoral district of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican George Luke Smith on March 4, 1875. Since he was not nominated in 1876 by ​​his party, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877. 1879 Levy was a member of a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Louisiana. In the same year he became an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court This office he held until his death on August 14, 1882 in Saratoga. He was buried in Natchitoches.