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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaDavid Levy YULEE
(1810-1886)
Senate Years of Service:
1845-1851; 1855-1861Party: Democrat; DemocratYULEE, David Levy, a
Delegate and a Senator from Florida; born David Levy in St. Thomas,
West Indies, June 12, 1810; at the age of nine was sent to the
United States to Norfolk, Va. to attend a private school; studied
law in St. Augustine, Fla.; admitted to the bar in 1836 and
practiced in St. Augustine, Fla.; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1838; clerk to the Territorial
legislature in 1841; elected as a Whig-Democrat, a Territorial
delegate to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March
4, 1841-March 3, 1845); did not seek renomination, having become a
candidate for the Senate; upon the admission of Florida as a State
into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate and served from July 1, 1845, to March 3, 1851; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Private Land
Claims (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses), Committee on Naval
Affairs (Thirty-first Congress); by an act of the Florida
Legislature and at his request his name was changed to David Levy
Yulee in 1846; again elected to the United States Senate in January
1855 and served from March 4, 1855, until his withdrawal January
21, 1861; chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
(Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses); due to his support of
the Confederacy, was a prisoner at Fort Pulaski in 1865; president
of the Florida Railroad Company 1853-1866; president of Peninsular
Railroad Company, Tropical Florida Railway Company, and Fernandina
and Jacksonville Railroad Company; known as the “Father of
Florida’s railroads”; moved to Washington, D.C., in
1880; died in New York City, October 10, 1886; interment in Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Hühner, Leon. “David L. Yulee,
Florida’s First Senator.” In Jews in the South,
edited by Leonard Dinnerstein and Mary Dale Palsson, pp. 52-74.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973; Whitfield,
James B. “Some Legal Phases of the Senatorial Contest Between
David L. Yulee and Stephen R. Mallory, Sr., in 1851.”
Florida Law Journal 19 (October 1945): 251-55.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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