Panama City pilot., 1908-01-02
Stephen R. Mallory.

cores Ond2nce we CLEAN the tOllOWlng /
relative to the late Senator Mallorys |
life.
"Stephen Russell Mallory was born
at Columbia, S. c., in 1S4S, scion of |
the family to which Florida has
pointed with pride for many years.
Because of a stock which fitted him
for the responsibilities which were to
rest upon his shoulders in the years
to come, the name Mallory of Florida
meant more perhaps to the evolution
of state politics than any other,
having been prominently connected
with its development since 1851. 1t
has contributed three members to
the United States senate, and it was
in the years agOne his son was like
wise honOred by the same cOnstitu-
ency, and when he reached Washing
ton and dOnned the tOga, the sing
ular coincidence presented itself of
his meeting in the same capacity a
cousin, Senator White of California,
a nephew of the elder Mallory.
Stephen R. Mallory, the father,
was born on the Island of Trinidad in
1918. He settled in Florida at an
early age and in 1851 was elected
United States senator, in which ca
pacity he continued to serve his
state until Florida seeded in 1861.
Three days after Jefferson Davis was
inaugurated president of the Confed
eracy he appointed Senator Mallory
secretary of the navy, position
which he held until the fall of Rich
mond in 1865.
Stephen R. Mallory, when a boy of
barely 10 years, gave evidence of his
future capabilities by grasping the
situation which then presented itself
with all the insight and cold calcula-
ton of his elders. The great civil
war had descended on the land of
his fathers. The time for action had
come and despite his tender years
and his pitiful experience he showed
the stuff he was made of and joined
Lees army in Virginia as a private.
Here the young man won recognition
for his hardness and courage alike.
After the war he entered George
town College and for two years af-
I ter his graduation be taught a class
there.
He then removed to New Orleans
and was admitted to the bar, and in
1874 began the practice of law in
Pensacola. He was elected to the
Florida legislature in 1876 and to the
Florida senate in 1880, being re-elect
ed in 1884. He was elected to the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third congress
and in 1898 he was a delegate to the
national Democratic convention
which nominated Cleveland and Thur
man for president and vice president.
In 1890 he was nominated for con-
gress at Barlow, and elected, and
again in 1892 he was nominated and
elected to congress. In 1897 he was
elected to the United States senate
and reelected in 1908, which term
he was serving at the time of his
| death.
During the early SOS he found time
! to demonstrate his journalistic ability
and succeeded in editing what was
! then known as the Pensacola Gazette
in a most able and interesting man
ner. In fact journalism was one of
his many talents, but his life belong
ed to his state. which calling, was
answered in his characteristic man
ner. He was needed, he put his
shoulder to the wheel of state politics
when he was needed most and con-
tinued as a prominent factor in the
material and civic development of
Florida until his best energies were
exhausted and i'll health had left him
a broken and shattered man.
Senator Mallory never married, his
sole companion before her death,
which occurred in 1900, being his
mother. For the past two years he
has been a member of the household
of his nephew, DR.. S. r. Mallory Ken
nedy, at whose home, No. :, West
DeSoto street, death occurred this
morning. Characteristic with the
simple last will of the late senator,
there will be no congressional funeral.
An adjournment for the day and
flower covered desk at Washington
to be the only demonstrations which