(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 22

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

(Yulee, David Levy, Senator). Communication from the Hon. D.L. Yulee, asking that he may be afforded an opportunity to be heard when the report of the Select Committee upon the question of the contested election to which he is a party, comes before the Senate for consideration, and asking that certain papers in relation to the case may be printed. * Bound with: Contested Election of Senator from the State of Florida, Report of Select Committee Thereon, and Documents, being statements, testimony and arguments of Hon. David L. Yulee, claiming the seat held by Hon. Stephen R. Mallory. 32nd Congress, 1st Session pp. 296. Disbound. 4to

Washington, DC: A. Boyd Hamilton 1852

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

David Levy Yulee (1810-86) was instrumental in securing Florida’s admission to the Union in 1845. That same year he was elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first Jew to serve in that body. In 1851 Yulee lost a re-election bid to Stephen R. Mallory in a bitterly contested race. Unwilling to concede, he contested Mallory’s right to the seat and documents pertaining to his case were published as Contested Election of Senator from the State of Florida. Yulee’s appeal was unsuccessful, yet he was later re-elected in 1855. A staunch Southern rights activist, Yulee resigned from the Senate in 1861 when Florida seceded from the Union. See Leon Hühner, “David L. Yulee, Florida’s First Senator,” Proceedings of the American Jewish Historical Society 25 (1917), pp. 1-29