William W. J. Kelly

William W. J. Kelly

Infobox_Lt_Governor
name= William W. J. Kelly


caption=
order= 1st
office= Lieutenant Governor of Florida
term_start= December 20, 1865
term_end= July 4, 1868
governor= David S. Walker
predecessor= None
successor= William Henry Gleason
birth_date= birth date|1814|4|7
birth_place= Wilmington, North Carolina
death_date= death date and age|1878|9|8|1814|4|7
death_place= Pensacola, Florida
party= Republican
profession=
spouse=
footnotes=

William Washington Jones Kelly (April 7, 1814September 8, 1878) was the first Lieutenant Governor of Florida.

Kelly was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Hanson Kelly and Susan Clark Kelly, an entrepreneurial merchant. The Kelly family moved to Pensacola about 1830. Hanson Kelly became the postmaster for Pensacola, an office he held until his death in the 1850s.

William studied law and entered the Bar of Escambia County, Florida, on November 11, 1832. He served in various court capacities and seems to have never really practiced law.

In 1837, he served as a private with his father in a company of men that was formed in Pensacola to cross the bay and round up wayward Creek Indians, slated for removal to Oklahoma.

He served in the Florida Territorial legislature (senate and house) and later in the state House of Representatives, representing Escambia County, until the split of Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties in 1845. He served as a justice of the peace from February 10, 1831, until his death for both counties.

In 1846, he was elected an alderman for Pensacola. During this year he also was a founding member of the Masonic Lodge (Escambia Lodge No. 15, F & AM) in Pensacola.

From Mar 1847 until June 1848, served as captain of Company A of the Florida Volunteers for the Mexican War, a part of the Florida Battalion, of which he commanded while the group was in Mexico.

In 1850, he was elected Worshipful Master of the Escambia Lodge NO. 15 in Pensacola.

In 1851, he married Pauline Virginia Mitchell and was given bounty land in Santa Rosa County, Florida, for his service in the Mexican War. He sold the land.

In 1852, his oldest daughter, Pauline Virginia Kelly, was born. On April 5th of this year he entered the U.S. Navy as a purser and served on various ships and at the Pensacola Navy Yard over the next nine years.

In September 1853, during a yellow fever epidemic, his wife dies. He took a leave of absence from the U.S. Navy and did not return to duty for a year and a half.

On May 8, 1856, he married Mary Ella Smith in Pensacola. He spent 1857 aboard various ships in the Carribean. His dauther Mary was born in 1867 and his son William W. J. Kelly Jr. was born in 1858. In the 1860 census he owned 8 slaves (belonging to his late wife's estate and thus to his eldest daughter) and was the legal guardian of his brother, Frederick.

On Jan 21, 1861, Kelly resigned his commission in the U.S. Navy, one of the last allowed to do so before the outbreak of the American Civil War. On March 26 he joined the Confederate Navy and was given the rank of paymaster and sent to the Savannah Squadron. He was in charge of the Columbus (GA) Iron Works and a shipbuilding operation while in this station. In 1864, he was stationed in Mobile and later surrendered there at the end of the war. After his parole, he returned to Pensacola with his family.

He was a delegate from Escambia County for the Republican Party for the 1865 Florida Constitutional Convention. He was later elected the first lieutenant governor of Florida, a position he held for a short three years. He was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor on December 20, 1865. [Citation
last = Manley
first = Walter W., II
last2 = Brown
first2 = E. Canter, Jr.
last3 = Rise
first3 = Eric W.
year = 1998
title = The Supreme Court of Florida and Its Predecessor Courts, 1821-1917
publication-place = Gainesville, FL
publisher = University Press of Florida
page = 203
isbn = 0813015405
url = http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA203&dq=kelly&sig=vO8H4d5pvxWxesjhh60rvT9MGsU&id=6DZsiFB1Oj8C&output=html
accessdate = 2008-05-27
]

In 1871, Kelly was elected a county circuit court judge and also served as a county judge (different jurisdiction). He also served as a commissioner for the federal district court.

In 1876 and 1877, Kelly served as a customs inspector at the Port of Pensacola and died on September 8, 1878. He was buried in the northeast corner grave of the northeast corner plot of the northeast corner of St. John's Cemetery, which was a Masonic Cemetery at the time, a very privileged place.

References

External Link

* [http://www.flgenhistonline.com/counties/escambia/people/timelinewmkelly1.htm Timeline by Biographer Russell James]


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