David Levy Yulee

Politician

David Levy Yulee was born in Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands, United States on June 12th, 1810 and is the Politician. At the age of 76, David Levy Yulee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
June 12, 1810
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands, United States
Death Date
Oct 10, 1886 (age 76)
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Profession
Lawyer, Politician
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Nancy Wickliffe
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David Levy Yulee Life

David Levy (born David Levy; June 12, 1810–October 10, 1886) was an American politician and solicitor.

He was born in St. Thomas and later under British influence: his father was from Morocco and his mother was from Europe.

As a child, the family moved to Florida, where he grew up on their vast lands.

He later served as Florida's territorial delegate to Congress.

Yulee was the first person of Jewish descent to be elected and serve as a United States Senator.

He founded the Florida Railroad Company and served as president of several other businesses, earning the nickname "Father of Florida Railroads." He was named "Great Floridian" by the state in 2000 and transformed Yulee, the name of one of his Moroccan ancestors' name, to his name shortly after his 1846 marriage to Nancy Christian Wickliffe, the daughter of ex-Governor Charles A. Wickliffe of Kentucky, was born.

Despite Yulee's conversion to Christianity (Episcopalian) and raised their children as Christian, he suffered with antisemitism throughout his life.

He was jailed in Fort Pulaski for nine months for assisting Confederate President Jefferson Davis in escaping the Civil War.

After being pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, he returned to his Florida railroad interests and other business ventures.

Early life and education

On the island of St. Thomas, David Levy was born in Charlotte Amalie, France. Moses Elias Levy, a Sephardi businessman from Morocco who made a fortune in lumber in the British colony, was his father. Hannah Abendanone, his mother, was also Sephardi; her ancestors had gone from Spain in the 15th-century expulsion to the Protestant Netherlands and England; her ancestors had gone from Spain to the Protestant Netherlands and England. During the British rule of the Danish West Indies (now the United States Virgin Islands), several people migrated to the Caribbean as English colonists. Moses Levy, the first cousin and business partner of Phillip Benjamin, the father of Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederate States of America's future Secretary of State.

Moses Levy purchased 50,000 acres (200 km2) of property near present-day Jacksonville, Florida Territory, after the family immigrated to the United States in the early 1820s. He wanted to build a "New Jerusalem" for Jewish refugees in Israel. In Norfolk, Virginia, the parents sent their son to a boy's academy and college. Levy trained in law in St. Augustine with Robert R. Reid, who was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began a practice in St. Augustine.

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David Levy Yulee Career

Early political career

Levy served in the territorial militia, including during the Second Seminole War, during his twenties. He was present at a conference with Seminole chiefs, including Osceola, in 1834.

He was elected to the Legislative Council of the Florida Territory in 1836, serving from 1837 to 1839. He delegated to the territory's constitutional convention in 1838 and served as the legislature's clerk in 1841.

Political career

Levy (now known as the delegate from the Florida Territory to the United States House of Representatives) was elected in 1841 and served for four years as the delegate from the Florida Territory to the United States House of Representatives. He was elected after his election, but opponents argued that he was not a citizen. Levy has agreed to suspend his legislative duties pending the discussion of this issue in the upcoming congressional session. The subject of the House of Commons, along with a defense by Levy and testimony from witnesses favorable to him, had not reached a final opinion by late March 1842. Levy was allowed to serve as the ambassador for the first time, but no further attempts were made to challenge his claim to it. Levy, the first female representative in the House of Representatives, worked to obtain statehood for the territory and to prevent slave expansion in other newly admitted states.

In 1845, Florida was admitted as a state, Levy was elected by the Senate as a Democrat, the first Jew in the United States to earn a seat in the Senate. He served until 1851 (during which period he began using Yulee as his surname). During his first Senate term, he served as chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Private Land Claims (1845–1849) and the United States Senate Committee on Naval Affairs (1849–1851).

By the Florida legislature in 1855, Yulee was re-elected to the Senate for the second time. He served until 1861 in order to help the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War.

Yulee's inflammatory pro-slavery rhetoric in the Senate earned him the nickname "Florida Fire-Eater." Despite frequently denying that he favoured secession, Yulee and his colleague, Senator Stephen Mallory, requested a statement of munitions and equipment in Florida forts on January 2, 1860. "The first thing to do is the occupation of the forts and arsenals in Florida," he wrote to a friend in the state.

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