Joseph Aristide Landry

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.

Joseph Landry was born near Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, on July 10, 1817. He attended school in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

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.

After leaving Congress, he was president of the police jury of Ascension Parish in 1861.

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.

He died near Donaldsonville on March 9, 1881, and is interred in Donaldsonville Catholic Cemetery.

• Landry Tomb

• Bio at Congress.gov
• Political Graveyard
• Joseph Aristide Landry at Find a Grave
• Joseph Aristide Landry in the Louisiana Dictionary of Biography — Scroll down to find the Landrys.

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