Editing David Levy Yulee

{{Short description|American politician (1810–1886)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = David Levy Yulee
|image        = David Levy Yulee - Brady-Handy.jpg
|caption      = Yulee ({{circa}} 1855–1865)
|jr/sr        = United States Senator
|state        = [[Florida]]
|term_start   = March 4, 1855
|term_end     = January 21, 1861
|predecessor  = [[Jackson Morton]]
|successor    = [[Thomas W. Osborn]] (in 1868)
|term_start1  = July 1, 1845
|term_end1    = March 3, 1851
|predecessor1 = Seat established
|successor1   = [[Stephen Mallory]]
|state2       = [[Florida Territory]]
|district2    = {{ushr|Florida Territory|AL|at-large}}
|term_start2  = March 4, 1841
|term_end2    = March 3, 1845<br>Delegate
|predecessor2 = [[Charles Downing]]
|successor2   = [[Edward Carrington Cabell|Edward Cabell]] (Representative)
|birth_name   = David Levy
|birth_date   = {{birth date|1810|6|12}}
|birth_place  = [[Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands|Charlotte Amalie]], [[Danish West Indies]] (now [[United States Virgin Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands]])
|death_date   = {{death date and age|1886|10|10|1810|6|12}}
|death_place  = [[New York City|New York City, New York]], U.S.
|resting_place = [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]]<br />[[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
|party        = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|spouse       = Nancy Wickliffe
|relatives     = [[Charles A. Wickliffe]] (father-in-law)
<!-- RELIGION REMOVED PER PROJECT-WIDE CONSENSUS AT THE VILLAGE PUMP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_126#RfC:_Religion_in_biographical_infoboxes -->
}}

'''David Levy Yulee''' (born '''David Levy'''; June 12, 1810 – October 10, 1886) was an American politician and attorney who served as the [[United States Senate|senator]] from [[Florida]] immediately before the [[American Civil War]]. He also founded the [[Florida Railroad|Florida Railroad Company]] and served as president of several other rail companies, earning him the nickname of "Father of Florida Railroads."<ref name=jvl>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/yulee.html |title=Jewish Virtual Library: David Levy Yulee |access-date=2009-05-15}}</ref>

Yulee was born on the island of [[Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands|St. Thomas]], then under British control, to a [[Sephardic Jewish]] family; his father was a trader from [[Morocco]] and his mother, also of Sephardi descent, was born in [[Sint Eustatius]] and raised in St. Thomas.<ref>Kurt F. Stone, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ACTF56SnaykC&pg=PA4 ''The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members''], 2010, page 4</ref> The family moved to Florida when he was a child. He later served as Florida's territorial delegate to Congress.

Yulee was the first person of [[Jewish]] ancestry elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]] as well as the first elected to the [[United States Senate]]. He added Yulee, the name of a Moroccan ancestor, to his name soon after his 1846 marriage to Nancy Christian Wickliffe, daughter of ex-Governor [[Charles A. Wickliffe]] of [[Kentucky]]. Though Yulee converted to Christianity,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Garraty |first1=John Arthur |last2=Carnes |first2=Mark Christopher |date=1999 |title=American National Biography |volume=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oe0pAQAAMAAJ&q=%22david+levy+yulee%22+converted+christian |location=New York, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=201|isbn=9780195206357 }}</ref> became an [[Episcopalian]],<ref name="Allman">{{cite book|title=Finding Florida. The True History of the Sunshine State|last=Allman|first=T.D.|publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press|year=2013|isbn=9780802120762}}</ref>{{rp|187}} and raised his children as Christian,<ref>{{cite web |last=Edenfield |first=Gray |url=http://ameliamuseum.blogspot.com/2014/06/david-yulees-history.html |title=David Yulee's History |date=June 17, 2014 |work=From the Jailhouse |publisher=Amelia Island Museum of History |location=Fernandina Beach, FL}}</ref> he encountered [[Antisemitism in the United States|antisemitism]] throughout his career.<ref>{{cite book |last=McIver |first=Stuart B. |date=2008 |title=Touched by the Sun |volume=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7Ubhouh6g8C&pg=PA168 |location=Sarasota, FL |publisher=Pineapple Press |page=168 |isbn=978-1-56164-206-9}}</ref>

Yulee was in favor of slavery and the secession of Florida. His fortune came from a [[sugarcane]] plantation on the [[Homosassa River]], and his antebellum railroads were largely built by slave labor. After the [[United States Civil War|Civil War]], he was imprisoned at [[Fort Pulaski]] for nine months for aiding the escape of [[Confederate President]] [[Jefferson Davis]].<ref name="Federal Writers' Project 1939 348">{{citation |url=https://archive.org/details/floridaaguidetot012110mbp |title=Florida. A Guide to the Southernmost State |date=1939 |access-date=October 29, 2017 |place=New York |author=Federal Writers' Project |publisher=Oxford University Press|page=348}}</ref> After being pardoned by President [[Andrew Johnson]], he returned to his Florida railroad interests and other business ventures.<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/yulee.html David Levy Yulee] Jewish Virtual Library</ref> In 2000, he was recognized as a "[[Great Floridian]]" by the state.

==Early life and education==
He was born David Levy in [[Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands|Charlotte Amalie]], on the island of [[Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands|St. Thomas]]. His father was [[Moses Elias Levy]], a [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi Jewish]] businessman from [[Morocco]] who made a fortune in [[lumber]] in the British colony.<ref name=stone>{{Cite book |last=Stone |first=Kurt F. |title=The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members |year=2001 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ACTF56SnaykC&pg=PA4 |page=4 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9-780-8108-7738-2}}</ref><ref>Roger Moore, Ron Kurtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wek0d8Wm3KcC ''Amelia Island and Fernandina Beach''], 2001, page 1873</ref> His mother, Hannah Abendanone,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1886-controversy-beset-senator-dies-1.5347977|title = 1886: Controversy-beset first Jewish U.S. Senator dies| newspaper=Haaretz }}</ref> was also Sephardi; her ancestors [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain|were expelled from Spain]] to the [[Netherlands]] and [[England]]. His grandfather Eliyahu ha-Levy ibn-Yuli served as an undersecretary to Sultan [[Mohammed ben Abdallah]] while his paternal grandmother Rachel was from [[Tangiers]] and was said to have spoken fluent [[Spanish language|Spanish]].<ref name=stone/> Some later migrated to the Caribbean as English colonists during the British occupation of the [[Danish West Indies]] (now the [[United States Virgin Islands]]). Moses Levy was a first cousin and business partner of Phillip Benjamin, who was the father of [[Judah P. Benjamin]], the future Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America.<ref>''Mosaic: Jewish Life in Florida'' (Coral Gables, FL: MOSAIC, Inc., 1991): 9</ref>

After the family immigrated to the United States in the early 1820s, Moses Levy bought {{convert|50000|acre|km2}} of land near [[Jacksonville, Florida|present-day Jacksonville]], [[Florida Territory]]. {{citation needed span|Despite his wealth as a trader, his father feared it would lead to sin.|date=August 2023}} He wanted to establish a "New [[Jerusalem]]" for Jewish settlers. The parents sent their son to a boy's academy and college in [[Norfolk, Virginia]].  Levy studied law with [[Robert R. Reid]] in [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]], was admitted to the bar in 1832, and started a law practice in St. Augustine.<ref name=jvl /><ref name="jmof.fiu.edu">[http://jmof.fiu.edu/ Retrieved from the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum of Florida]</ref><ref name="archive"/>
[[File:Hon. David L. Yulee, Florida - NARA - 528542.jpg|right|thumb|David L. Yulee, photograph by [[Mathew Brady]]]]

==Early political career==
During his twenties, Levy served in the territorial militia, including during the [[Second Seminole War]]. In 1834, he was present at a conference with Seminole chiefs, including [[Osceola]].

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

==Florida businessman==
[[File:Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins01.jpg|thumb|left|[[Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins State Historic Site]]]]
In 1851, Yulee founded a {{convert|5000|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[sugar cane]] plantation, built and maintained by enslaved African Americans,<ref name="fch.ju.edu">{{cite web |title=David Levy Yulee: Conflict and Continuity in Social Memory |url=https://fch.ju.edu/FCH-2006/Wiseman-David%20Levy%20Yulee.htm |publisher=Jacksonville University |last=Wiseman |first=Maury |access-date=2013-06-27}}</ref><ref name="WaPo">{{cite news |last1=Weil |first1=Julie Zauzmer |title=More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/ |access-date=5 May 2024 |publisher=[[Washington Post]] |date=10 January 2022}} Database at {{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-13|url=https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2024-04-29}}</ref> along the [[Homosassa River]]. The remains of his plantation, which was destroyed during the Civil War, are now the [[Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins State Historic Site]]. Yulee was also business partners with [[John William Pearson]] at [[Orange Springs, Florida]], but he abandoned his idea of building a railroad in the area as tensions rose and war seemed imminent.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cook|first=David|title=Orange Springs Once Thriving Resort|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19871206&id=r2kxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6788,3959519|access-date=May 2, 2014|newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner|date=December 6, 1987}}</ref>

While living in [[Fernandina, Florida|Fernandina]], Yulee began to develop a railroad across Florida. He had planned since 1837 to build a state-owned system. He became the first Southerner to use state grants under the [[Internal improvements|Florida Internal Improvement Act of 1855]], passed to encourage the development of such infrastructure. He made extensive use of the act to secure federal and state [[land grant]]s "as a basis of credit" to acquire land and build railroad networks, which were built with slave and Irish immigrant labor<ref name="fch.ju.edu"/> through the Florida wilderness.<ref name="archive">[http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/Yulee.htm John R. Nemmers, "A Guide to the David Levy Yulee Papers"], University of Florida Smathers Libraries, Special and Area Studies Collections, March 2005, accessed 24 July 2011</ref>

Issuing public stock, Yulee chartered the Florida Railroad in 1853. He planned its eastern and western terminals at deep-water ports, [[Fernandina, Florida|Fernandina]] ([[Port of Fernandina]]) on [[Amelia Island]] on the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] side, and [[Cedar Key, Florida|Cedar Key]] on the [[Gulf of Mexico]], to provide for connection to ocean-going shipping. His company began construction in 1855.  On March 1, 1861, the first train arrived from the east in Cedar Key, just weeks before the beginning of the Civil War.

==Political career==
Levy (still going by that surname) was elected in 1841 as the [[Delegate (United States Congress)|delegate]] from the Florida Territory to the [[United States House of Representatives]] and served four years.  He was seated after his election,<ref>{{cite news |date=August 5, 1841 |title=House of Representatives: Mr. Levy introduced a bill making further provision for the suppression of hostilities in Florida... |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/64522301/ |work=Hillsborough Recorder |location=Hillsborough, NC |url-access=subscription  |page=3}}</ref> but his position was disputed, as opponents argued that he was not a citizen.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 8, 1841 |title=Twenty-Seventh Congress: The resolution of the Committee on Elections in reference to Mr. Levy was taken up as follows: Resolved, that David Levy, Esq., is not a citizen of the United States... |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/40141242/ |work=Public Ledger |location=Philadelphia, PA |url-access=subscription  |page=1}}</ref> Levy agreed to suspend his legislative activities pending resolution of this issue in the next Congressional session.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 13, 1841 |title=The resolution postponing the case of David Levy sitting delegate from Florida till the next session was adopted: Yeas 123, Nays 44 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/264308030/ |work=Commercial Advertiser and Journal |location=Buffalo, NY |url-access=subscription  |page=2}}</ref>  By late March 1842 the associated investigations, committee votes, and attempts to bring the issue to a vote in the full House, which included a defense by Levy and testimony from witnesses favorable to him, had not produced a definitive opinion of the House.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bartlett |first=D. W. |date=1865 |title=Cases of Contested Elections in Congress from 1834 to 1865, Inclusive |url=https://archive.org/details/casescontestede01bartgoog |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office |page=[https://archive.org/details/casescontestede01bartgoog/page/n51 47] |ref={{sfnRef|''Cases of Contested Elections in Congress from 1834 to 1865, Inclusive''}}}}</ref> Levy was allowed to take his seat, and no further attempts were made to contest his claim to it.{{sfn|''Cases of Contested Elections in Congress from 1834 to 1865, Inclusive''|page=47}} Once seated in the House, Levy worked to gain statehood for the territory and to protect the expansion of slavery in other newly admitted states.

In 1845, after Florida was admitted as a state, the legislature elected Levy as a [[History of the United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] to the United States Senate, the first Jew in the United States to win a seat in the Senate. He served until 1851 (during which period he began using Yulee as his surname).<ref name=great>{{cite web|url=http://www.flheritage.com/services/sites/floridians/?section=h |title=Great Floridians 2000 Program: Judah Philip Benjamin |publisher=Florida Department of State, Florida Heritage |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184612/http://www.flheritage.com/services/sites/floridians/?section=h |archive-date=2007-09-30 }}</ref> 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).

In 1855 Yulee was again elected by the Florida legislature to the Senate. He served until resigning in 1861 to support the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] at the start of the [[American Civil War]].

Yulee's inflammatory pro-slavery rhetoric in the Senate earned him the nickname "Florida [[Fire-Eaters|Fire-Eater]]".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/us/politics/republican-jews-alarmed-at-the-prospect-of-a-void-in-the-house-and-senate-.html |first=Jason |last=Horowitz |title=Republican Jews Alarmed at the Prospect of a Void in the House and Senate |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 July 2014 |access-date=13 July 2014}}</ref> Although he frequently denied that he favored secession, Yulee and his colleague, Senator [[Stephen Mallory]], jointly requested from the [[United States Department of War|War Department]] a statement of munitions and equipment in Florida forts on January 2, 1860. He wrote to a friend in the state, "the immediately important thing to be done is the occupation of the forts and arsenals in Florida."<ref name="Federal Writers' Project 1939 348"/>

==Civil War==
There is some dispute as to Yulee's wartime legislative service. Some sources state that he served in the Confederate Congress and others do not.<ref name="jmof.fiu.edu"/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Davis |first=Robt. W. |date=June 1, 1902 |title=Florida in Congress |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w5BEAQAAMAAJ&q=%22confederate+congress%22+florida+baker+maxwell+rogers+hilton&pg=PA362 |journal=Florida Magazine |location=Jacksonville, FL |publisher=G. D. Ackerly |page=362}} Note: All of Florida's Confederate senators and representatives are listed here, and Yulee's name is not among them.</ref> A [[United States Senate]] document states that Yulee did serve in the Confederate Congress.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/electing-appointing-senators/contested-senate-elections/024Yulee_Mallory.htm | title=U.S. Senate: The Election Case of David L. Yulee of Florida v. Stephen R. Mallory of Florida (1852) }}</ref> After the war, Yulee was imprisoned in [[Fort Pulaski National Monument|Fort Pulaski]] for nine months for treason,<ref name=Allman />{{rp|188}} specifically for aiding in the 1865 escape of [[Jefferson Davis]].<ref name="Federal Writers' Project 1939 348"/>

==Reconstruction==
After receiving a pardon and being released from confinement, Yulee returned to Florida and rebuilt the Yulee Railroad, which had been destroyed by warfare. He served as president of the [[Florida Railroad]] Company from 1853 to 1866, as well as president of the Peninsular Railroad, Tropical Florida Railway, and Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad companies. His development of the railroads in Florida was his most important achievement and contribution to the state.<ref name="archive"/> He was called the "Father of Florida Railroads".<ref name=jvl/>  His leadership helped increase economic development in the state, including the late nineteenth-century tourist trade.<ref name=jvl/> In 1870 Yulee hosted President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] in Fernandina.

==Marriage and family==
[[File:Yulee, Nannie Christian (Healy, 1846).png|thumb|Portrait of Nancy Yulee, ''née'' Wickliffe, by [[George Peter Alexander Healy|Healy]] (1846).]]
In 1846, Levy officially changed his name to David Levy Yulee by an act of the Florida Legislature,<ref name="Federal Writers' Project 1939 348"/> adding his father's [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardic]] surname.<ref name="archive"/>  That year he married Nancy Christian Wickliffe, the daughter of [[Charles A. Wickliffe]], the former [[governor of Kentucky]] and [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General]] under President [[John Tyler]]. His wife was Christian, and they raised their children in her faith.<ref name=jvl/> Levy was a second cousin of U.S. Senator from Louisiana [[Judah P. Benjamin]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monaco |first=C. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uKekCgAAQBAJ&dq=david+levy+yulee+judah+benjamin+cousin&pg=PA185 |title=Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer |date= October 2015|publisher=LSU Press |isbn=978-0-8071-6428-0 |language=en}}</ref>

===Death and legacy===
Selling the Florida Railroad, he retired in 1880 with his wife to [[Washington, D.C.]], where she had a family.<ref name="archive"/> Yulee died on October 10, 1886, at the Clarendon Hotel in New York City.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Death of Mr. Yulee |newspaper=The Weekly Floridian |date=October 14, 1886 |page=2 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-weekly-floridian-death-of-mr-yulee/135338321/ |access-date=2023-11-17 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |language=en}}{{Open access}}</ref><ref>Thomas William Herringshaw, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gRQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA524 ''Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography''], 1914, p. 524</ref><ref>John R. Nemmers, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida, [http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/Yulee.htm ''A Guide to the David Levy Yulee Papers'': Biographical Note], March 2005</ref> Yulee was buried at [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]] in Washington, D.C.<ref name=jvl /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/366e.pdf |title=Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C. (Henry Crescent) - Lots 366 and 367 East |access-date=2022-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023015039/https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/366e.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-23 |url-status=live}}</ref>[[Image:Yulee gravesite funerary memorial.jpg|thumb|Yulee gravesite]][[Image:Yulee-Base inscription funerary memorial.jpg|thumb|Memorial inscription]]

[[Image:GreatFloridians2000.jpg|thumb|right|175px]]
*Both the town of [[Yulee, Florida]]<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j3NPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3656%2C1357787 | title=Driving through Florida history | work=Ocala Star-Banner | date=Aug 19, 1956 | access-date=8 June 2015 | author=Hunn, Max | pages=29}}</ref> and [[Levy County, Florida]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Publications of the Florida Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA32|year=1908|publisher=Florida Historical Society.|page=32}}</ref> are named for him.
*The town of Fernandina Beach, Florida has a statue of Yulee.<ref name="forwardfeldmanwhyaretherenostatues">{{cite news|last1=Feldman|first1=Ari|title=Why Are There No Statues Of Jewish Confederate Judah Benjamin To Tear Down?|url=http://forward.com/news/380453/why-are-there-no-statues-of-jewish-confederate-judah-benjamin-to-tear-down/|access-date=September 6, 2017|work=Forward|date=August 20, 2017|quote=There is only one known statue of a Jewish Confederate leader. It depicts David Levy Yulee, an industrialist, plantation owner, and Confederate senator from Florida, and it shows him sitting on a bench.}}</ref>
*In 2000, the Florida Department of State designated Levy Yulee as a [[Great Floridians|Great Floridian]] in the ''Great Floridians 2000 Program''. Award plaques in his honor were installed at both the Fernandina Chamber of Commerce and the Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins State Historic Site.<ref name=great />
*The [[World War II]] [[Liberty Ship]] {{SS|David L. Yulee}} was named in his honor.

==See also==
*[[List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress]]
*[[List of Jewish members of the United States Congress]]
*[[List of United States senators born outside the United States]]

==Archival material==
The [[George A. Smathers Libraries]] at the [[University of Florida]] have a collection of [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00025535/00001?search=territory+=florida David Levy Yulee Papers (1842–1886)]. Some of the material has been digitized.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{commons category-inline}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=David Levy Yulee}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070706195332/http://www.yuleerailroaddays.org/ Detailed biography], Yulee Railroad Days website
*[https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/resources/158 Guide to the David L. Yulee Papers], University of Florida]
{{CongBio|Y000061}}
*[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/yulee.html Biography], Jewish Virtual Library

{{s-start}}
{{s-par|us-hs}}
{{s-bef|before=[[Charles Downing]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=Delegate to the [[List of United States Representatives from Florida|U.S. House of Representatives]]<br>from [[Florida Territory's at-large congressional district]]|years=1841–1845}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Edward Carrington Cabell|Edward Cabell]]|as=U.S. Representative}}
|-
{{s-par|us-sen}}
{{s-new|seat}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[List of United States Senators from Florida|United States Senator (Class 1) from Florida]]|years=1845–1851|alongside=[[James Westcott]], [[Jackson Morton]]}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Stephen Mallory]]}}
|-
{{s-bef|before=[[Jackson Morton]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[List of United States Senators from Florida|United States Senator (Class 3) from Florida]]|years=1855–1861|alongside=[[Stephen Mallory]]}}
{{s-vac|next=[[Thomas W. Osborn]]<sup>(1)</sup>}}
{{s-ref|Because of Florida's secession, the Senate seat was vacant for seven years.}}

{{USSenFL}}
{{SenArmedServiceCommitteeChairs}}
{{SenPOCSCommitteeChairmen}}
{{U.S. Florida Representatives}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yulee, David Levy}}
[[Category:1810 births]]
[[Category:1886 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century American railroad executives]]
[[Category:Fire-Eaters]]
[[Category:American people of Moroccan-Jewish descent]]
[[Category:American people of Spanish-Jewish descent]]
[[Category:American people of United States Virgin Islands descent]]
[[Category:American politicians of Moroccan descent]]
[[Category:American Presbyterians]]
[[Category:American prisoners and detainees]]
[[Category:British Virgin Islands people]]
[[Category:Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)]]
[[Category:Converts to Calvinism from Judaism]]
[[Category:Danish emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:Danish Sephardi Jews]]
[[Category:Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Florida Territory]]
[[Category:Democratic Party United States senators from Florida]]
[[Category:Florida lawyers]]
[[Category:Forerunners of Zionism]]
[[Category:American Mizrahi Jews]]
[[Category:Jewish state legislators in Florida]]
[[Category:Confederate Jews]]
[[Category:Jewish members of the United States House of Representatives]]
[[Category:Jewish United States senators]]
[[Category:Levy County, Florida]]
[[Category:Members of the Florida Territorial Legislature]]
[[Category:People of Florida in the American Civil War]]
[[Category:People from Fernandina Beach, Florida]]
[[Category:People pardoned by Andrew Johnson]]
[[Category:United States Virgin Islands Jews]]
[[Category:19th-century American lawyers]]
[[Category:United States senators who owned slaves]]
[[Category:Prisoners and detainees of the United States military]]
[[Category:19th-century American Sephardic Jews]]
[[Category:19th-century Florida politicians]]
[[Category:19th-century United States senators]]
[[Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives]]
[[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves]]