Joseph Aristide Landry Explained

Birthname:Joseph Aristide Landry
Joseph A. Landry
State1:Louisiana
District1:2nd
Term1:March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853
Preceded1:Henry Adams Bullard
Succeeded1:Theodore Gaillard Hunt
Office2:Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Term2:1840
Birth Date:July 10, 1817
Birth Place:Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Death Place:Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Restingplace:Donaldsonville Catholic Cemetery
Party:Whig

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

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.

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