Background
Levi Maish was born in Conewago Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
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Education
He attended the common schools and the York County Academy.
Career
He taught school in Manchester Township and in New York During the American, Maish recruited a company for the Union Army in 1862, and with it joined the 130th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and then promoted to colonel after the Battle of Fredericksburg.
He was mustered out with his regiment at the expiration of its term of service on May 21, 1863.
Maish attended lectures in the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He was appointed by the legislature in 1872 as one of a commission to reexamine and reaudit the accounts of certain public officers of York County, Pennsylvania.
Maish was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878.
He was again elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890. He was engaged in the practice of law in Washington, District of Columbia, until his death there in 1899. Interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
Maish was made a Mason in York Lodge Number.
266, F.&Master of Arts, in York, Pennsylvania on January 6, 1863. 451 in York, of which he was subsequently elected to serve as Worshipful Master in 1873.
Membership
He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1867 and 1868. He resigned in 1869 to become a charter member of Zeredatha Lodge Number.
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Political Party
Democratic party