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- LeRoy Percy (* 9. November 1860 bei Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi; † 24. Dezember 1929 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Von 1910 bis 1913 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Mississippi im US-Senat. (de)
- LeRoy Percy (November 9, 1860 – December 24, 1929) was an American attorney, planter, and Democratic politician who served as a United States Senator to the state of Mississippi from 1910 to 1913. Percy was a grandson of Charles "Don Carlos" Percy. He graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee in 1879, and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1881, where he was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. He was admitted to the bar later that year and achieved wealth as an attorney. Often being paid in land, he became a major planter in Greenville, Mississippi, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. His plantation of Trail Lake eventually covered 20,000 acres and was worked by black sharecroppers and Italian immigrants. He also leased land in Chicot County in the Arkansas Delta. Percy's influence led him to become active in politics. He was elected by the state legislature to the U.S. Senate in 1910. In 1912, he was defeated in the first popular election of a U.S. Senator in the state, by the populist James K. Vardaman, a white supremacist, who attacked Percy for being relatively liberal on race issues and for being a member of the state's planter elite. Vardaman, also a Democrat, ran unopposed in the general election. In 1922, Percy came to national notice by confronting Ku Klux Klan organizers in Greenville and uniting local people against them. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Percy appointed his son, William Alexander Percy, to direct the work of thousands of black laborers on the levees near Greenville. (en)
- LeRoy Percy, född 9 november 1860 i Washington County, Mississippi, död 24 december 1929 i Memphis, Tennessee, var en amerikansk politiker (demokrat). Han representerade delstaten Mississippi i USA:s senat 1910-1913. Percy utexaminerades 1879 från . Han avlade 1881 juristexamen vid University of Virginia. Han var sedan verksam i Mississippi som advokat och som plantageägare. Senator Anselm J. McLaurin avled 1909 i ämbetet och James Gordon blev utnämnd till senaten fram till fyllnadsvalet följande år. Delstatens lagstiftande församling valde Gordons efterträdare. Rasistledaren James K. Vardaman hade det starkaste stödet av de enskilda kandidaterna men hans motståndare förenade sig bakom Percy som fick majoriteten av rösterna. Percy kandiderade till en hel mandatperiod i senaten men besegrades i demokraternas primärval av Vardaman. Theodore G. Bilbo var Vardamans kampanjchef och den vinnande kampanjen dels kritiserade Percy som en aristokratisk representant för överklassen, dels i rasistiska tongångar kritiserade hans progressiva syn gällande utbildning för de svarta. Percy blev 1922 mera allmänt känd då han fördömde Ku Klux Klans försök att organisera sig i Washington County, Mississippi. Percys grav finns på Greenville Cemetery i Greenville, Mississippi. (sv)
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- LeRoy Percy (* 9. November 1860 bei Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi; † 24. Dezember 1929 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Von 1910 bis 1913 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Mississippi im US-Senat. (de)
- LeRoy Percy (November 9, 1860 – December 24, 1929) was an American attorney, planter, and Democratic politician who served as a United States Senator to the state of Mississippi from 1910 to 1913. Percy was a grandson of Charles "Don Carlos" Percy. He graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee in 1879, and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1881, where he was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. He was admitted to the bar later that year and achieved wealth as an attorney. Often being paid in land, he became a major planter in Greenville, Mississippi, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. His plantation of Trail Lake eventually covered 20,000 acres and was worked by black sharecroppers and Italian immigrants. He also leased land in Chicot County in the Arkansas Delta. (en)
- LeRoy Percy, född 9 november 1860 i Washington County, Mississippi, död 24 december 1929 i Memphis, Tennessee, var en amerikansk politiker (demokrat). Han representerade delstaten Mississippi i USA:s senat 1910-1913. Percy utexaminerades 1879 från . Han avlade 1881 juristexamen vid University of Virginia. Han var sedan verksam i Mississippi som advokat och som plantageägare. Percy blev 1922 mera allmänt känd då han fördömde Ku Klux Klans försök att organisera sig i Washington County, Mississippi. Percys grav finns på Greenville Cemetery i Greenville, Mississippi. (sv)
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