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Senate Years of Service: 1851-1861 Party: Democrat
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MALLORY, Stephen Russell, (father of Stephen Russell Mallory [1848-1907]),
a Senator from Florida; born in Trinidad, West Indies, about 1813;
immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Key West,
Fla., in 1820; attended schools in Mobile Bay, and Nazareth, Pa.; appointed by
President Andrew Jackson customs inspector at Key West in 1833; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced in Key West; county judge of Monroe
County 1837-1845; appointed collector of the port of Key West in 1845; served
in the Seminole War; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1851;
reelected in 1857 and served from March 4, 1851, until his withdrawal on
January 21, 1861; seat declared vacant by Senate resolution on March 4, 1861;
chairman, Committee on Printing (Thirty-third Congress), Committee on Naval
Affairs (Thirty-fourth through Thirty-sixth Congresses); Secretary of the Navy
of the Confederacy; imprisoned at the close of the Civil War 1865-1866; settled
first in Lagrange, Troup County, Ga., then Pensacola, Fla.; engaged in the
practice of law; died in Pensacola, Fla., November 9, 1873; interment in St.
Michaels Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Underwood, Rodman L.
Stephen Russell Mallory: A Biography of the Confederate Navy Secretary
and United States Senator. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2005; Durkin,
Joseph.
Confederate Navy Chief. 1954. Reprint. Columbia: University of
South Carolina Press, 1987; Whitfield, James B. Some Legal Phases of the
Senatorial Contest Between David L. Yulee and Stephen R. Mallory, Sr., in
1851.
Florida Law Journal 19 (October 1945): 251-55.
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