Rollin Carolas Mallary

Rollin Carolas Mallary

Rollin Carolas Mallary (born May 27, 1784 in Cheshire , Connecticut , † April 15, 1831 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1820 and 1825 he represented the first and from 1825 to 1831 the second constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Rollin Mallary attended Middlebury College in Vermont until 1805 . He then moved to Poultney in Rutland County . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began practicing his new profession in Castleton in 1807 . In the same year he became a curator of the Rutland County Grammar School .

Politically, Mallary became a member of the Democratic-Republican Party . In the following years he served as secretary to the governor of Vermont. He was also a member of the government council of this state between 1807 and 1819, with a few interruptions. He was also the District Attorney for Rutland County from 1811 to 1813 and from 1815 to 1816.

In the 1818 congressional election, Rollin Mallary lost to Orsamus Cook Merrill in Vermont's first constituency . However, he appealed against the outcome of the election, which was approved in January 1820. So he could take on January 13, 1820 the seat of MPs held by Merrill in Congress . In 1820 and 1822 he was re-elected in the first district. This allowed him to represent this constituency in Congress until March 3, 1825. Since the elections of 1824 he ran in the second district, where he traded with William Czar Bradley . Mallary was confirmed in 1826, 1828 and 1830, respectively. After the dissolution of his party in the mid-1820s, he joined the opposition to the Democratic Party founded by Andrew Jackson . Mallary was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures from 1825 to 1831 . He remained a member of Congress until his death on April 15, 1831.

Web links

• Rollin Carolas Mallary in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Rollin Carol Mallary in the database of Find a Grave (English)