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  • Stephen Mallory
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  • Stephen Mallory was a black superintendent in the London police. He was in charge of juvenile delinquents in London and surrounding areas.
  • Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) served in the United States Senate as Senator (Democrat) from Florida from 1850 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War. For much of that period, he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. This was a time of rapid naval reform, and he insisted that the ships of the United States Navy should be as capable as those of Great Britain and France, the foremost navies in the world at that time. He also wrote a bill, and guided it through Congress, that provided for compulsory retirement of officers who did not meet the standards of the profession.
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Office
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  • Lawful hero
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term start
  • 1851-03-04
  • 1861-03-04
Goals
  • Protect Matt, and get Matt a better life
Birth Date
  • 1812
Origin
Skills
  • Good judges of character
death place
  • Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
Name
  • Stephen Mallory
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Alias
  • Detective Superintendent Mallory
President
Hobby
  • Processing juvenile delinquents
Party
  • Democratic
Birth Place
  • Trinidad, British West Indies
Title
term end
  • 1861-01-21
  • 1865-05-02
death date
  • --11-09
jr/sr
  • United States Senator
Successor
Religion
  • Roman Catholicism
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Years
  • 1851
  • 1861
State
  • Florida
Occupation
  • Superintendent in London police
Fullname
  • Stephen Mallory
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  • 233
abstract
  • Stephen Mallory was a black superintendent in the London police. He was in charge of juvenile delinquents in London and surrounding areas.
  • Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) served in the United States Senate as Senator (Democrat) from Florida from 1850 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War. For much of that period, he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. This was a time of rapid naval reform, and he insisted that the ships of the United States Navy should be as capable as those of Great Britain and France, the foremost navies in the world at that time. He also wrote a bill, and guided it through Congress, that provided for compulsory retirement of officers who did not meet the standards of the profession. Although he was not a leader in the secession movement, Mallory followed his state out of the Union. When the Confederate States of America was formed, he was named Secretary of the Navy in the administration of President Jefferson Davis. He held the position throughout the existence of the Confederacy. Because of indifference to naval matters by most others in the Confederacy, Mallory was able to shape the Confederate Navy according to the principles he had learned while serving in the US Senate. Some of his ideas, such as the incorporation of armor into warship construction, were quite successful and became standard in navies around the world. On the other hand, the navy was often handicapped by administrative ineptitude in the Navy Department. During the war, he was weakened politically by a Congressional investigation into the Navy Department for its failure in defense of New Orleans. After months of taking testimony, the investigating committee concluded that it had no evidence of wrongdoing on his part. Mallory resigned after the Confederate government had fled from Richmond at the end of the war. Following the final collapse of the Confederacy, he and several of his colleagues in the cabinet were imprisoned and charged with treason. After more than a year in prison, the public mood had softened, and he was granted parole by President Andrew Johnson. He returned to Florida, where he supported his family in his final years by again practicing law. Unable to hold elective office by the terms of his parole, he continued to make his opinions known by writing letters to newspapers. His health began to deteriorate, although he was not incapacitated until the very end. He died on November 9, 1873. He was the father of Stephen Russell Mallory, a U.S. Representative and Senator from Florida.
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