Pioneer in Florida. (Moroccan-American) Orthodox Jewish Levy (b. 1782; d. 1854) was a plantation developer who was rumored to have been the first to introduce the growing of sugar cane there. Levy was a prominent advocate for the abolition of slavery, and as well, helped establish the earliest free public school. On the Jewish front, Levy also tried to encourage European Jewish immigration of the Florida area. Levy was not particularly successful on the Jewish-front at home, however, as both of his children converted-out. One of them, David Levy-Yulee, became the first senator of Florida (and consequently the first Jewish-born senator of the Unite States).