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Levy, William Mallory

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1827, in the county of the Isle of Wight, Va. In 1846 he volunteered in the first Louisiana regiment for service in Mexico, and was made a lieutenant, serving until peace was declared in 1848. He was a member of the Virginia state legislature in 1860 and 1861; and a presidential elector in the former year. He served as a colonel in the confederate service; and in 1874 was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-fourth congress.