Mordecai Marks Levy was a pharmacist, merchant, and newspaper editor who served as sheriff and as a state legislator in South Carolina. He was part of Camden, South Carolina's Jewish community.
He represented Kershaw County in the state legislature from 1834 to 1838 and was a candidate for U.S. Congress in 1836.
As editor of the Camden Commercial Courier, he voiced opposition to abolitionist efforts from the North. (There is also a 1965 version published by the Kershaw County Historical Society.)
In 1841 he signed on to a letter supporting a General Bankrupt Law in the U.S. Senate. /
He had sisters named Flora and Rosina Levy, both of whom (one at a time) married Chapman Levy.
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