Rollin Carolas Mallary

Rollin Carolas Mallary (May 27, 1784 – April 15, 1831) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as U.S. Representative from Vermont.

Rollin Carolas Mallary
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont's at-large district
In office January 13, 1820 – March 3, 1821
Preceded by	Orsamus C. Merrill
Succeeded by	District eliminated
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont's 1st district
In office March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825
Preceded by	Samuel Shaw district inactive
Succeeded by	William Czar Bradley
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont's 2nd district
In office March 4, 1825 – April 15, 1831
Preceded by	William Czar Bradley
Succeeded by	William Slade
Personal details
Born	(1784-05-27)May 27, 1784 Cheshire, Connecticut
Died	April 15, 1831(1831-04-15) (aged 46) Baltimore, Maryland
Political party	Democratic-Republican Party
Spouse	Ruth Stanley Mallary
Children	Carolus Rollin, Caroline Stanley, George Henry, and Sarah Mallary

Biography

Mallary was born in Cheshire, Connecticut,^[1] and graduated from Middlebury College in 1805.^{[citation needed]} He moved to Poultney, Vermont, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He began the practice of law in Castleton, Vermont, in 1807. Mallary married Ruth Stanley Mallary, and they had four children.

Mallary was elected trustee of the Rutland County Grammar School in 1807. He was appointed by Governor Israel Smith as Secretary to the Governor and Council in 1807, he held that position again from 1809 to 1812 and from 1815 to 1819.^[2] He served as the State's attorney for Rutland County from 1811 to 1813.^[3] In 1816, Mallary moved to Poultney, Vermont. He was defeated for Congress in 1819 because votes for several of the towns were not returned early enough to be counted. As a Democratic-Republican, Mallary successfully contested the election of Orsamus C. Merrill to the Sixteenth Congress.^[4]

Mallary served six terms in Congress. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as an Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses. He was reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, serving from January 13, 1820, until his death in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 15, 1831.^[5] He served as chairman of the Committee on Manufactures in the Nineteenth through Twenty-first Congresses.

Death

Mallary is interred in East Poultney Cemetery, in East Poultney, Vermont.

Further reading

• Graffagnino, J. Kevin. "'I saw the ruin all around' and 'A comical spot you may depend': Orasmus C. Merrill, Rollin C. Mallary, and the Disputed Congressional Election of 1818." Vermont History 49 (Summer 1981): 159-68.

See also

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)