Joseph Aristide Landry
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Biography
Joseph Landry was born near Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, on July 10, 1817. He attended school in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Political career
He served member of the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1840, then elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, serving from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1853.
Later career
After leaving Congress, he was president of the police jury of Ascension Parish in 1861.
Civil War
Before the Civil War, he was first sergeant in the Chasseurs de l'Ascension. During the war, he attached to Company B of the Cannoneers of Donaldsonville, fighting on the side of the Confederacy.
Death and burial
He died near Donaldsonville on March 9, 1881, and is interred in Donaldsonville Catholic Cemetery.
See also
External links
- Bio at Congress.gov
- Political Graveyard
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- Joseph Aristide Landry in the Louisiana Dictionary of Biography — Scroll down to find the Landrys.
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- 1817 births
- 1881 deaths
- Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives
- Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana
- People from Donaldsonville, Louisiana
- Burials at Ascension of our Lord Catholic Church Cemetery (Donaldsonville)
- 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
- 19th-century members of the Louisiana State Legislature