Stephen Mallory II

Stephen Russell Mallory Jr.
United States Senator
from Florida
In office
May 15, 1897 – December 23, 1907
Preceded byWilkinson Call
Succeeded byWilliam J. Bryan
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Florida's 1st district
In office
March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895
Preceded byRobert H. M. Davidson
Succeeded byStephen M. Sparkman
Member of the Florida Senate
In office
1880
Member of the Florida House of Representatives
In office
1876
Personal details
Born(1848-11-02)November 2, 1848
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
DiedDecember 23, 1907(1907-12-23) (aged 59)
Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Military service
Allegiance Confederate States of America
Branch/service Confederate States Army
 Confederate States Navy
RankMidshipman (navy)
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

Stephen Russell Mallory Jr. (November 2, 1848 – December 23, 1907) was a U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from Florida who served as a Democrat. He was the son of U.S. Senator Stephen Russell Mallory.

He was born in Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina. During the American Civil War he entered the Confederate Army in the fall of 1864; appointed midshipman in the Confederate Navy in the spring of 1865 and served until the end of the war; graduated from Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., in 1869, where he then served as instructor in Latin and Greek until 1871; studied law; admitted to the bar in Louisiana in 1872 and commenced practice in New Orleans; moved to Pensacola, Florida, in 1874 and continued the practice of law; member, Florida House of Representatives 1876; member, Florida Senate 1880, and reelected in 1884; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second United States Congress and Fifty-third United States Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895); was not a candidate for renomination in 1894; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1897, subsequently appointed and then elected to the Senate in 1903, and served from May 15, 1897, until his death in Pensacola, Florida, December 23, 1907; chairman, Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Sixtieth United States Congress); interment in St. Michael's Cemetery.[1]

  1. ^ "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. 9 November 1903. pp. 13–14. Retrieved 2 July 2023.