Robert Mallory

Robert Mallory (* November 15, 1815 in Madison, Virginia; † August 11, 1885 in La Grange, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1865 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Mallory initially enjoyed a private school education. He then studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In the following years he worked in La Grange in agriculture. After studying law and his 1837 was admitted to the bar he began in New Castle to work in this profession. The late 1850s he became a member of the short-lived opposition party.

In the congressional elections of 1858 he was in the seventh election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. where he succeeded Humphrey Marshall took on 4 March 1859. After a re-election in 1860 he was able to represent his district until March 3, 1863 Congress. In the elections of 1862 he ran as a Unionist successfully in the fifth constituency. On 4 March 1863, he joined the Congress in the footsteps of Charles A. Wickliffe, who had previously represented this district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Overall, Robert Mallory graduated from 1859-1865 three legislative sessions in Congress. These were at first then shaped by the tensions before the Civil War and the events of the war itself. From 1859 to 1863 he chaired the Committee on Roads and Canals.

For the 1864 elections, he was not confirmed. In August 1866, Mallory was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia. In 1876, he served as a Vice President of the Centennial Exhibition, the World Exhibition in Philadelphia. In between and after, he worked in agriculture. He cultivated his farm "Spring Hill ," which originally belonged to the Taylor family related to him, who was also president Zachary Taylor. Robert Mallory died on August 11, 1885 and was buried in the family cemetery at "Spring Hill ".