Rufus Mallory

Infobox Congressman
name= Rufus Mallory


state= Oregon
district = ushr|Oregon|AL|At-large
party= Republican
term= March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1869
preceded= James H. D. Henderson
succeeded= Joseph S. Smith
office2 = Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives
term_start2 = 1872
term_end2 = 1873
predecessor2 = Benjamin Hayden
successor2 = John C. Drain
constituency2 = Marion County
date of birth= January 10 1831
place of birth= Coventry, New York
date of death= April 30 1914
place of death=Portland, Oregon
spouse=Lucy A. Rose
current occupation=

Rufus Mallory (January 10, 1831 - April 30, 1914) was a Representative from the U.S. state of Oregon.

Early life

Born in Coventry, New York, Mallory attended the common schools and Alfred University in New York.cite web|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000083| accessdate = 2007-06-04] He moved to New London, Iowa, where he taught school from 1855 to 1858.

Oregon

In 1858, he moved to Roseburg, Oregon and continued teaching. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1860, and opened a law practice in Salem. That same year, he married Lucy A. Rose, the daughter of Roseburg founder Aaron Rose.cite book| title =History of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington 1889, Volume II| date =1889| pages =p. 438| url =http://www.usgennet.org/usa/or/county/union1/1889vol2/volumeIIpage431-450.htm| accessdate= 2007-01-11 ] He served as district attorney of Oregon's first judicial district in 1860 and of the third district from 1862 to 1866.

Mallory served one term in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1862 to 1864.cite web|url=http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/legislative/histleg/statehood/1862reg.htm|title=Oregon Legislative Assembly (2nd) 1862 Regular Session|publisher=Oregon State Archives|accessdate=2007-06-07] After leaving office, he was a prosecutor in Salem, where he gained fame for securing the conviction of George Beale and George Baker for the murder of farmer Daniel Delaney in one of Oregon's first sensational trials.cite book|title=Fifty Years in Oregon: Experiences, Observations, and Commentaries Upon Men, Measures, and Customs in Pioneer Days and Later Times|last=Geer|first=T. T.|authorlink=T. T. Geer|publisher=The Neale Publishing Company|date=1912|pages=pp. 121-125|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wFTbZPqBYccC&pg=PA6&dq=t.+t.+geer#PPA122,M1] cite web|url=http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gbhang.htm|title=The Hanging of Uncle George|accessdate=2007-06-20] The convicted men were hanged in front of thousands of onlookers in downtown Salem on May 17 1865.cite web|url=http://www.salemhistory.net/people/criminals.htm|title=Salem (Oregon) Online History: Criminals|publisher=Salem Public Library|accessdate=2007-06-20]

U.S. Congress

A year later, Mallory's fame led him to win election as Oregon's representative in the United States House of Representatives. His term in Congress coincided with the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Mallory, a Republican, voted against the first failed attempt at impeachment in the fall of 1867, but in the second attempt in February 1868, gave an impassioned speech on the House floor, and voted with his party to impeach the President.cite journal|journal=Congressional Globe, House of Representatives|title=Speech of Hon. Rufus Mallory of Oregon|date=February 24, 1868|pages=40th Congress, 2nd Session, pp. 225–227|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=083/llcg083.db&recNum=704] He would serve one term as a from March 4, 1867 to March 3, 1869, and did not seek re-election in 1868.

After Congress

After serving in Congress, Mallory resumed his Salem law practice. In 1872, he was again elected to the Oregon House of Representatives, and served as speaker of the house.cite web|url=http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/legislative/histleg/statehood/1874reg.htm|title=Oregon Legislative Assembly (8th) 1874 Regular Session|publisher=Oregon State Archives|accessdate=2007-06-07] After one two-year term, he was appointed as United States district attorney in 1874 and served until 1882. He was then appointed as a special agent of the Treasury Department in Singapore, British Malaya, and after completing the necessary business, continued around the world in 78 days to Portland, where he resumed his law practice. In 1890, he became one of the founding members of the Oregon Bar Association.cite web|url=http://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/05oct/heritage.html|publisher=Oregon State Bar|accessdate=2007-06-20|title=Assessing a legacy: A bar is born|last=Dodds|first=Gordon B.|coauthors=Cathy Croghan Alzne]

Legacy

Mallory died in Portland on April 30, 1914, and his cremated remains are located in the vaults of the Portland Cremation Association. The Hotel Mallory in Portland, built in 1912, was commissioned by Mallory.cite news|title=Portland landmark Mallory Hotel sold|url=http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2004/08/02/daily11.html|last=Culverwell|first=Wendy|date=August 3, 2004|accessdate=2007-06-20] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006,cite press release|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/listings/20060602.htm|title=Weekly List of Action Taken on Properties 5/22/06 through 5/26/06|publisher=National Park Service|date=June 2, 2006|accessdate=2007-06-07] renovated, and renamed the Hotel deLuxe that same year.cite news|title=Mallory hotel reborn with old-style glamour|url=http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2006/05/01/story5.html?page=1|last=Culverwell|first=Wendy|date=April 28, 2006|accessdate=2007-06-07]

References

External links

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