Robert
Mallory

November 15, 1815 - August 11, 1885

Madison, Virginia

US Congressman. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1827 and moved to Kentucky, where he operated a farm. He became an attorney in 1837. In 1858 he was elected to the US House as an Opposition Party candidate and reelected as a Unionist, serving from 1859 to 1865. After running unsuccessfully for reelection in 1864 he returned to Spring Hill, his Kentucky farm. In 1876 Mallory was one of the Vice Presidents of the International Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Spring Hill was owned by the Taylor family to which Mallory was related, including President Zachary Taylor, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.