Mallory, Stephen Russell

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    Full name
    Stephen Russell Mallory
    Place of birth
    Trinidad, British West Indies
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Estimated
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    6
    Family
    John Mallory (father), Ellen Russell (mother), Angela Moreno (wife), Stephen Russell Mallory, Jr. (son)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Jackson Administration (1829-37)
    Confederate government (1861-65)
    US Senate
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)

    Stephen Russell Mallory (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

    Reference
    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 retirement on January 21, 1861, when Florida seceded; 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. Michael’s Cemetery.
    “Mallory, Stephen Russell,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000084.
    How to Cite This Page: "Mallory, Stephen Russell," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6163.