![]() ![]() He served in Belgium as a delegate until the withdrawal of American personnel upon the U.S. After returning to Greenville, Percy joined his father's firm in the practice of law.ĭuring World War I, Percy joined the Commission for Relief in Belgium in November 1916. He spent a year in Paris before going to Harvard for a law degree. Percy attended the Episcopal University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, a postbellum tradition in his family. As an attorney and planter with 20,000 acres under cultivation for cotton, he was very influential in the state. His father was elected as US senator in 1910. He was born to Camille, a French Catholic, and LeRoy Percy, of the planter class in Mississippi, and grew up in Greenville on the big river. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Roman Catholicism of his French mother. ![]() His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee (Knopf 1941) became a bestseller. William Alexander Percy (– January 21, 1942), was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. ![]()
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