Rollin Carolas Mallary

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Rollin Carolas Mallary (May 27, 1784 - April 15, 1831) was a U.S. Representative from Vermont.

Born in Cheshire, Connecticut, Mallary was graduated from Middlebury College in 1805. He moved to Poultney, Vermont, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Castleton, in 1807.

Mallary was elected trustee of the Rutland County Grammar School, Secretary to the Governor and Council, State's attorney for Rutland County. As a Democratic-Republican, he successfully contested the election of Orsamus C. Merrill to the Sixteenth Congress.

Mallary was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as an Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses and served from January 13, 1820, until his death in Baltimore, Maryland on April 15, 1831. He served as chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (Nineteenth through Twenty-first Congresses). He was interred in East Poultney Cemetery, East Poultney, Vermont.

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• Rollin Carolas Mallary at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress