Stephen Russell Mallory Jr. (November 2, 1848December 23, 1907) was a U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from

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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

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he entered the

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in the fall of 1864; appointed

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in the

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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

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and

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until 1871; studied law; admitted to the bar in

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in 1872 and commenced practice in

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; moved to

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, in 1874 and continued the practice of law; member,

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1876; member,

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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

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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

, December 23, 1907; chairman, Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (

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); interment 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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