Legrand W. Perce

Legrand Winfield Perce (June 19, 1836 - March 16, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Perce completed preparatory studies.He attended Wesleyan College, Lima, New York, and was graduated from the Albany (New York) Law School in 1857.He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Buffalo, New York. Enlisted in the Union Army in April 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War.He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, in August 1861.He was promoted to the rank of captain in June 1862.He was appointed captain in the United States Volunteers in August 1863 and was brevetted lieutenant colonel and colonel in 1865.He settled in Natchez, Mississippi.He was appointed register in bankruptcy in June 1867. Upon readmission of the State of Mississippi to representation Perce was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress.He was reelected to the Forty-second Congress and served from February 23, 1870, to March 3, 1873.He served as chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-second Congress).He was not a candidate for reelection in 1872.He engaged in the practice of law and also in the real estate business at Chicago, Illinois, where he died March 16, 1911.He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery.

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