Legrand W. Perce

Legrand (or Le Grand) Winfield Perce (June 19, 1836 – March 16, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.

He attended Genesee College in Lima, New York, and graduated from Albany Law School in 1857.

[1] In August 1861 he accepted an offer to join the Sixth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a second lieutenant.

Upon readmission of the State of Mississippi to representation, Perce was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress.

He engaged in the practice of law and also in the real estate business at Chicago, Illinois, where he died March 16, 1911.