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.

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

Political career 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.

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

Civil War 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.

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