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| Name : | Stephen Russell Mallory |
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| ID : | 16763 |
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Born: | 1813 ( 60 years ) |
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| Country: | United States of America (USA) |
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| Place of birth: | Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies |
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| Passed Away: | November 9, 1873 |
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| Place Of Death : | Pensacola, Florida, United States of America |
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Stephen Russell Mallory was a United States politician and the Confederate Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War. He served as United States senator from Florida (1851-1861).
Born in Trinidad, in 1813, Mallory received law degree at Spring Hill College in Alabama. Stephen Mallory held various governmental positions in the Key West area. After marrying the daughter of a wealthy Pensacola family, he was elected to the United States Senate as a moderate Democrat in 1850.
He had a reputation as one of the most knowledgeable men in Alabama about naval affairs; therefore, he was appointed chair of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs. He worked tirelessly to reform the United States Navy. After the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, Mallory urged conciliation. However, like many others, his loyalties lay with the South, and when Florida seceded, he followed. Because of his friendship with President Davis, the need of a Floridian cabinet member, and his extremely useful and vast knowledge of naval affairs, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy.
At the start of the war, the Confederacy owned a mere fifteen warships, and very few naval officers had seceded. The Confederate War Department did not cooperate very efficiently, and naval funding was very limited. However, Mallory was somewhat effective in finding some European ships, mainly from Great Britain. Mallory's vision of creating many ironclad warships to destroy the mainly wooden warships of the Union blockades was not fulfilled, largely due to the main Southern disadvantage: a lack of funds and materiel. In a related sense, his most important "failure" was not being able to persuade the other government officials to allot enough funding toward the navy.
After General Robert E. Lee evacuated Petersburg, Virginia, which meant the loss of the capital and seat of government at Ri |
Stephen Russell Mallory was a United States politician and the Confederate Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War. He served as United States senator from Florida (1851-1861).
Born in Trinidad, in 1813, Mallory received law degree at Spring Hill College in Alabama. Stephen Mallory held various governmental positions in the Key West area. After marrying the daughter of a wealthy Pensacola family, he was elected to the United States Senate as a moderate Democrat in 1850.
He had a reputation as one of the most knowledgeable men in Alabama about naval affairs; therefore, he was appointed chair of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs. He worked tirelessly to reform the United States Navy. After the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, Mallory urged conciliation. However, like many others, his loyalties lay with the South, and when Florida seceded, he followed. Because of his friendship with President Davis, the need of a Floridian cabinet member, and his extremely useful and vast knowledge of naval affairs, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy.
At the start of the war, the Confederacy owned a mere fifteen warships, and very few naval officers had seceded. The Confederate War Department did not cooperate very efficiently, and naval funding was very limited. However, Mallory was somewhat effective in finding some European ships, mainly from Great Britain. Mallory's vision of creating many ironclad warships to destroy the mainly wooden warships of the Union blockades was not fulfilled, largely due to the main Southern disadvantage: a lack of funds and materiel. In a related sense, his most important "failure" was not being able to persuade the other government officials to allot enough funding toward the navy.
After General Robert E. Lee evacuated Petersburg, Virginia, which meant the loss of the capital and seat of government at Richmond, Mallory (along with the remainder of the cabinet) was forced to flee. Once defeat was certain, he opposed guerrilla warfare in the latter days of the war. He was imprisoned at Fort Lafayette, New York for approximately ten months, before being released. He moved back to his law practice, while opposing the use of the military in Reconstruction and opposing black suffrage. He died in 1873.
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