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 STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY

, of Pensacola, was born November 2, 1848; entered Confederate army in Virginia in the fall of 1864; in the spring of 1865 was appointed midshipman in the Confederate navy; entered Georgetown College, District of Columbia, November, 1865, and graduated in June, 1869; taught a class at Georgetown College until July, 1871; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Louisiana at New Orleans in 1873; removed to Pensacola, Fla., in 1874, and began practicing law; was elected to the lower house of the legislature in 1876; was elected to the senate of Florida in 1880, and was reëlected in 1884; was elected to the Fifty-Second and Fifty-Third Congresses from the first district of Florida, and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate by the legislature of Florida for the term beginning March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.