Rufus Mallory

Rufus Mallory

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

Early years

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

Promotion to Congressman

Mallory was a member of the Republican Party . In 1862 he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1866 he made the leap into the US House of Representatives, where he replaced James Henry Dickey Henderson on March 4, 1867 . During his two-year term of office, the failed impeachment proceedings against US President Andrew Johnson fell . Although he was initially against the impeachment , he voted in the decisive vote for the removal of the president. However, since one vote was missing in the Senate , President Johnson could remain in office until the end of his term on March 3, 1869. Mallory declined to run again in 1868 and therefore resigned from Congress on March 3, 1869 .

Another résumé

In 1868 and 1888, Mallory took part as a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Ulysses S. Grant and later Benjamin Harrison were nominated as the party's presidential candidate. Professionally he worked again as a lawyer. In 1872 he was re-elected to the Oregon House of Representatives, whose speaker he then succeeded Benjamin Hayden . Between 1874 and 1882 Mallory was the successor of A. C. Gibbs as a federal attorney for the county of Oregon. He was then sent on a special mission to Singapore and British Malaya for a few months . Upon his return, he became a partner in a Portland law firm in 1883. In 1890, Mallory was a charter member of the Oregon Bar Association.

Web links

• Rufus Mallory in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Rufus Mallory in the database of Find a Grave (English)