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Yulee, David Levy, 1810-1886

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Personal name headingYulee, David Levy, 1810-1886
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Variant(s)Levy, David, 1810-1886
Yulee, D. L. (David Levy), 1810-1886
Birth date1810-06-12
Death date1886-10-10
Place of birthSaint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
AffiliationUnited States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Congress. Senate
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLegislators
Found inNUCMC data from Univ. of Fla., P.K. Yonge Lib. for His Papers, 1842-1920 (David Levy Yulee, 1810-1886; businessman, of Fla.; U.S. senator from Fla., 1845-1851, 1855-1861; member of Confed. Congress)
Encyc. Judaica, 1971 (Yulee, David Levy, 1810-1866 [sic]; b. David Levy in St. Thomas, West Indies)
NUCMC data from Univ. of West Fla., Spec. Coll. Dept. for Floridiana collection, 1818-1981 (speech of David Levy urging admittance of Fla. to the Union, 1845)
DAB (Yulee, David Levy; Jan. 12, 1848 by special act of Fla. legis. named changed to David Levy Yulee)
Florida Railroad, 1886: t.p. (D.L. Yulee)
Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed August 19, 2021 (Yulee, 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.)
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