Stephen Russell Mallory Jr. (November 2, 1848December 23, 1907) was a

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and

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from

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who served as a

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. He was the son of U.S. Senator

Stephen Russell Mallory Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) was an American politician who was a United States Senator from Florida from 1851 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. For much of that perio ...

of Florida. He was born in 1848 in Columbia,

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. His parents were Senator Stephen Mallory and his wife Angela Moreno, who was from a wealthy Spanish family from

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, Florida; the Mallorys soon returned to Florida, where his father had a successful political career. During the

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, Mallory entered the

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in the fall of 1864; he was appointed

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in the

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in the spring of 1865 and served until the end of the war. He graduated from

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, in 1869, where he then served as instructor in

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until 1871. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in

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in 1872 and commenced practice in

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. In 1874, he moved to Pensacola and continued the practice of law. He was a member of the

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in 1876 and of the

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in 1880, to which he was reelected in 1884. Mallory was elected as a Democrat to the

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and

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(March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1894. He was elected as a Democrat to the

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in 1897, subsequently appointed and then elected to the Senate in 1903, and served from May 15, 1897, until his death in

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, December 23, 1907. He was chairman of the Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (

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). He died in 1907 and was interred in St. Michael's Cemetery.

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Stephen Russell Mallory, late a senator from Florida, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1909
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