Edgar C. Levey (August 4, 1881 – October 8, 1962) was a Republican Speaker of the California Assembly and an assistant District Attorney in San Francisco in the early 1900s.

[2] Levey married Emily Newman in 1916 and raised two children: Janet Therese and Elaine Alice.

He served 1917-1918 as Great Sachem (state president) of the Great Council of California, Improved Order of Red Men, oldest fraternal order of American origin (dating back to the Committees of Correspondence in the original Thirteen Colonies of 1765).

The first was to establish a national magazine and the second was the creation of an Organization Department" (to extend the Order into new territories).

In November 1924 he was first elected to the legislature to represent San Francisco's 28th Assembly District.

In the legislature, Levey chaired a committee to investigate the need for motor laws and mandatory automobile liability insurance.