PERCE, Legrand Winfield (1836-1911)

Republican of Mississippi

5th congressional district

Served in House 1869-1873

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Biography

Representative from Mississippi; born in Buffalo, N.Y., June 19,1836; completed preparatory studies; attended Wesleyan College, Lima, N.Y., andwas graduated from the Albany (N.Y.) Law School in 1857; was admitted to thebar the same year and commenced practice in Buffalo, N.Y.; enlisted in theUnion Army in April 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War; was commissioned asecond lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, in August1861; promoted to the rank of captain in June 1862; appointed captain in theUnited States Volunteers in August 1863 and was brevetted lieutenant coloneland colonel in 1865; settled in Natchez, Miss.; appointed register inbankruptcy in June 1867; upon readmission of the State of Mississippi torepresentation was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress;reelected to the Forty-second Congress and served from February 23, 1870, toMarch 3, 1873; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-secondCongress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1872; engaged in the practiceof law and also in the real estate business at Chicago, Ill., where he diedMarch 16, 1911; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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