Yulee was a Delegate to the Convention which formed the State Constitution, and was elected a Senator in Congress in 1845, where he continued until 1861, officiating as Chairman of the Committee on Post-offices and Postroads. He was also President of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad in Florida. Resigned his seat in the Senate to take part in the Rebellion of 1861.

Zollicoffer, Felix K.-Born in Maury County, Tennessee, May 19, 1812, and received an academical education. He served for a few months in a printing-office, and in 1829 took upon himself the management of a newspaper at Paris, Tennessee. In 1834 he was editor and publisher of the Columbian Observer, in the same State; in 1835 he was elected State printer, and re-elected in 1837; in 1842 he removed to Nashville, and edited the Banner; in 1843 he was elected Comptroller of the State Treasury, and was re-elected in 1845 and 1847; in 1849 was elected to the State Senate; in 1850 was a contractor for building the Suspension Bridge at Nashville; in 1851 and 1852, again edited the Nashville Banner, and was elected a Representative in Congress, from Tennessee, in 1853, where he continued until the close of the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving in the same as a member of the Committee on Territories. He subsequently joined the Great Rebellion, and served as a General of volunteers, having been killed at the battle of Somerset, Kentucky. He was a Delegate to the Peace Congress of 1861.