Samuel A. Mulledy, S.J. (March 27, 1811 – January 8, 1866) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit. He served as president of Georgetown College in 1845. He was expelled from the Society of Jesus over charges of alcoholism in 1850. On his deathbed, he petitioned the Jesuit provincial superior to allow him to be readmitted.
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Samuel A. Mulledy, S.J. (March 27, 1811 – January 8, 1866) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit. He served as president of Georgetown College in 1845. He was expelled from the Society of Jesus over charges of alcoholism in 1850. On his deathbed, he petitioned the Jesuit provincial superior to allow him to be readmitted to the Society; four days before his death, his request was granted and he professed his vows. His father was a farmer and a Catholic of Irish descent; his mother, Sarah Cochrane, was from Virginia and was not Catholic. His brother, Thomas F. Mull Kennedy, was 17 years older than him, and also became a Jesuit and the president of the college. He died in New York City and lived out the remainder of his life as a pastor at the Church of St.
Lawrence O’Toole in 1863. He is buried at St. Joseph’s Church in Philadelphia, where he served as a missionary for the Catholic Church from 1847 to 1848. He also was a member of the board of directors of the University of Pennsylvania from 1846 to 1846. He had a son, Thomas Mulledy Jr., who was a prominent 19th-century Jesuit in the U.S. and a president of Washington University in St. Louis. His son was also a priest and served as the pastor of the St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C. until his death in 1866. His daughter, Mary, was a teacher at the Romney Academy in Virginia, where she was married to a Catholic.
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