Perry was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1891). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1890. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law. He died at his home, "San Souci," near Greenville, in 1902 and was buried in Christ Church Cemetery, Greenville, South Carolina.
Family
He was the son of Benjamin Franklin Perry (November 20, 1805 – December 3, 1886) and Elizabeth Frances McCall. In 1888, he married Louise Bankhead, daughter of Congressman and later U.S. Senator John H. Bankhead.[1]