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Richland County Biographies
MALLORY, STEPHEN RUSSELL
Naval officer,
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 2, 1848, in Columbia, S. C.
In 1869 he graduated from the Georgetown College at Washington, D. C. He
entered confederate army in Virginia in the fall of 1864, and in the
spring of 1865 was appointed midshipman in confederate navy. He was
admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Louisiana in 1872, and removed
to Pensacola, Fla., in 1874, and began the practice of law. He was elected
to lower house of the legislature in 1876, and was elected to the senate
in 1880 and was re-elected in 1884. He was elected to the fifty-second
congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a
democrat. [Herringshaw's Encyclopedia Of American
Biography Of The Nineteenth Century: Accurate And Succinct Biographies Of
Famous Men And Women In All Walks Of Life Who Are Or Have Been The
Acknowledged Leaders Of Life And Thought Of The United States Since Its
Formation, 1901 – Transcribed By Therman
Kellar]
