LeRoy Percy (November 9, 1860 – December 24, 1929) was an American attorney, planter, and Democratic politician who served as a United States Senator...
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father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed...
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The Bowery Boys (redirect from Eddie LeRoy)
to be renewed for the 1957 season. Four more films were made, with Eddie LeRoy joining the cast as bespectacled "Blinky." The gang returned to the sweet...
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father's Mississippi Protestant family included his great-uncle LeRoy Percy, a US senator, and LeRoy Pope Walker, a pro-slavery secessionist in Antebellum America...
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After completing his term as governor, he defeated Democratic incumbent LeRoy Percy, a member of the planter elite, in the primary for the 1912 U.S. Senate...
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John Percy (disambiguation) LeRoy Percy (1860–1929), American planter and politician Pierre-Francois Percy (1754–1825), French surgeon Richard Percy (died...
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Percy, Sr., and was the ancestor of such notables as Senator LeRoy Percy of Mississippi, the poet William Alexander Percy, Senator Charles H. Percy of...
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Leroy Percy State Park is a public recreation area located off Mississippi Highway 12, five miles (8.0 km) west of Hollandale, Mississippi. The state...
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Senator Percy may refer to: Charles H. Percy (1919–2011), U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1967 to 1985 LeRoy Percy (1860–1929), U.S. Senator from Mississippi...
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Edinburgh. (Brown married Catherine Percy; their two children died in infancy.) Percy and Maria named their third son, LeRoy Pope, after her father. The youngest...
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Alexander Percy, became a famed Confederate colonel and was a railroad lawyer after the war. LeRoy Percy (1860–1929), the son of William Alexander Percy, served...
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Senator James Gordon, the legislature was deadlocked in choosing between LeRoy Percy or former Governor James K. Vardaman as Gordon's successor. After 58...
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Lost nomination to full term. Feb 23, 1910 – Mar 4, 1913 Democratic LeRoy Percy 19 20 John Sharp Williams Democratic Mar 4, 1911 – Mar 4, 1923 Elected...
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U.S. senator LeRoy Percy. William Alexander Percy was born on May 10, 1834, in Huntsville, Alabama. He was the son of Thomas George Percy (1786–1841) and...
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LeRoy as a single parent. His mother moved to Oakland, California with Percy Teeple, a travel agent and former journalist, who would later become LeRoy's...
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59th (1905–1907) 60th (1907–1909) 61st (1909–1911) James Gordon (D) LeRoy Percy (D) John Sharp Williams (D) 62nd (1911–1913) 63rd (1913–1915) James K...
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families had considerable political influence in the state, and US Senator Leroy Percy was from here. Several residences and other buildings from the late 19th...
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appointed U.S. Senator, until February 22, 1910, when he was succeeded by LeRoy Percy, who had been elected by the legislature. Tutor, Forrest T. (2008). Gordons...
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Ochsner Don Albert Pardee John M. Parker Davidson Bradfute Penn LeRoy Percy Walker Percy, Obl.S.B. Felix Pierre Poché James Robb Thomas Jenkins Semmes,...
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again in 1918 to a fifth term, before his 1923 death. One-term Democrat LeRoy Percy lost renomination in mid-1911 to white supremacist James K. Vardaman...
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by the O.B. Crittenden Company. Among the firm's senior partners was LeRoy Percy, a lawyer, cotton planter, and Delta political leader. During the course...
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chairman in Texas during the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist LeRoy Percy, attorney, planter, and politician in Mississippi; elected by the state...
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cotton plantations included Sunnyside (owned in the 20th century by LeRoy Percy, planter and US Senator from Greenville, Mississippi); Florence, Patria...
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Bank of LeRoy (founded 1834, now Bank of America) and the Gazette-News newspaper (defunct 1993). Le Roy is the birthplace of Jell-O. Le Roy holds the...
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Lee Ferguson Walker Percy William Alexander Percy William Armstrong Percy, III Catherine Anne Warfield LeRoy Percy Thomas George Percy Bertram Wyatt-Brown...
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united behind Percy to block Vardaman, instead electing Democrat LeRoy Percy February 23, 1910, to finish the term that would end in 1913. Percy would later...
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Coleman John W. Kyle Lake Lincoln Lake Lowndes LeFleur's Bluff Legion Leroy Percy Natchez Paul B. Johnson Percy Quin Roosevelt Shepard Tishomingo Tombigbee...
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Overman - U.S. Senator, North Carolina 1903 to 1930 - Duke University 1874 LeRoy Percy - U.S. Senator, Mississippi 1909 to 1912 - University of Virginia 1881...
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James L. Gillespie (D) 1910 Shepherd S. Hudson (D) James Gordon (D) LeRoy Percy (D) 1911 John Sharp Williams (D) 1912 Earl L. Brewer (D) Theodore G....
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R-VT, Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge, R-MA Asbury Latimer, D-SC (1907–1910) LeRoy Percy, D-MS (1910–1911) Representatives: Benjamin F. Howell, R-NJ William S...
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