![]() ![]() He received the Croix de Guerre, the French military medal.ĭespite pursuing the legal profession, Percy also remained active in literary matters. He saw much combat and was promoted to the rank of captain. When the United States entered the war, Percy returned to the United States and joined the Army. ![]() During World War I, Percy served in the Commission for Relief in Belgium from November 1916-April 1917. He then joined his father's law firm in Greenville, MS. He then spent a year in Paris before returning to attend Harvard Law School. William Alexander Percy attended the Episcopalian University of the South (Sewanee), graduating in 1904, but became a committee Catholic, like his mother. William Percy campaigned actively in behalf of his father's election. Senator elected by the Mississippi legislature. His mother, Camille, was a French Catholic from New Orleans his father LeRoy Percy, was an influential Episcopalian attorney, and cotton planter who owned more than 20,000 acres under cultivation. William Alexander Percy was born on, in Greenville, Mississippi into an illustrious family of the planter class. ![]()
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