Mordecai Marks Levy was a pharmacist, merchant, and newspaper editor[1][2] who served as sheriff and as a state legislator in South Carolina.
He was part of Camden, South Carolina’s Jewish community.
He represented Kershaw in the state legislature from 1834 to 1838 and was a candidate for U.S. Congress in 1836.
[3][4] As editor of the Camden Commercial Courier, he voiced opposition to abolitionist efforts from the North.
[5] In 1841 he signed on to a letter supporting a General Bankrupt Law in the U.S.