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Joseph Aristide Landry

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Joseph A. Landry
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 2nd district
In office
March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853
Preceded byHenry Adams Bullard
Succeeded byTheodore Gaillard Hunt
Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
In office
1840
Personal details
Born
Joseph Aristide Landry

(1817-07-10)July 10, 1817
Donaldsonville, Louisiana
DiedMarch 9, 1881(1881-03-09) (aged 63)
Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Resting placeDonaldsonville Catholic Cemetery
Political partyWhig

Joseph Aristide Landry (July 10, 1817 – March 9, 1881) was a Confederate Civil War veteran who served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served one term as a Whig.

Biography

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Joseph Landry was born near Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, on July 10, 1817. He attended school in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Political career

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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

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After leaving Congress, he was president of the police jury of Ascension Parish in 1861.

Civil War

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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

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He died near Donaldsonville on March 9, 1881, and is interred in Donaldsonville Catholic Cemetery.

See also

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district

1851 – 1853
Succeeded by