Rufus Mallory

Rufus Mallory ( born January 10, 1831 in Coventry, Chenango County, New York, † April 30, 1914 in Portland, Oregon ) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1869 he represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Rufus Mallory attended the public schools of his home and then the Alfred Academy in New York State. After moving to New London in Iowa, he worked as a teacher 1855-1858. In 1858 he moved to Roseburg, Oregon, where he also worked as a teacher and studied law. After his 1860 was admitted to the bar he began this career in Salem exercise. Between 1862 and 1866 he was district attorney.

Ascent to Congressman

Mallory was a member of the Republican Party. In 1862 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Oregon. In the congressional elections of 1866 he made ​​the jump to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he James Henry Dickey Henderson replaced on March 4, 1867. In his two-year tenure, the failed impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson fell. Although he was initially against the impeachment, he voted in the crucial vote on the removal of the president. But as the Senate fell one vote, President Johnson could stay until the end of his term on March 3, 1869 Office. Mallory renounced in 1868 on a renewed candidacy and therefore different on March 3, 1869 from the Congress of.

Further CV

In the years 1868 and 1888 was Mallory delegate to the Republican National Conventions each, were nominated on which Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin Harrison as the presidential candidate of the party. Professionally he worked again as a lawyer. In 1872 he was again elected to the House of Representatives from Oregon, whose president he was then. Between 1874 and 1882, Mallory was Attorney for the District of Oregon. Then he was sent for a few months on a special mission to Singapore and British Malaya. After his return he became in 1883 a partner in a law firm in Portland. In 1890, Mallory was a founding member of the Bar of Oregon.