Stephen Russell Mallory Jr. (November 2, 1848December 23, 1907) was a
U.S. Senator
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Florida
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who served as a Democrat. He was the son of U.S. Senator
Stephen Russell Mallory
Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) was a Democratic United States Senate, senator from Florida from 1851 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War. For much of that period, he was chairman o ...
.
He was born in
Columbia
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,
Richland County, South Carolina
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. During the
American Civil War
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he entered the
Confederate Army
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in the fall of 1864; appointed
midshipman
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Latin
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and
Greek
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until 1871; studied law; admitted to the bar in
Louisiana
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Pensacola, Florida
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, in 1874 and continued the practice of law; member,
Florida House of Representatives
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1876; member,
Florida Senate
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United States Senate
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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
Pensacola, Florida
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, December 23, 1907; chairman, Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia ( Sixtieth United States Congress); interment in St. Michael's Cemetery.
See also
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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
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