Legrand W. Perce
(June 19, 1836 — March 16, 1911) Perce was an American politician, lawyer, and businessman. Legrand Winfield Perce was born in Buffalo, New York in 1836 and moved to Mississippi after the Civil War. Perce graduated from Albany Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He practiced law in New York until the Civil War broke out. He served in the Union army and attained the rank of colonel in 1865. After moving to Mississippi, Perce was appointed register in bankruptcy in 1867, and upon the readmission of Mississippi to the Union, was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives. He served in Congress from February 23, 1870 to March 3, 1873. After retiring from Congress, he returned to practicing law and also engaged in real estate business until his death in 1911.
[Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000221]
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Mississippi Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875
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