LC control no. | n 85336769 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Yulee, David Levy, 1810-1886 |
Variant(s) | Levy, David, 1810-1886 Yulee, D. L. (David Levy), 1810-1886 |
Birth date | 1810-06-12 |
Death date | 1886-10-10 |
Place of birth | Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island) |
Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
Affiliation | United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
Profession or occupation | Legislators |
Found in | NUCMC 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.) |
Associated language | eng |