Career
He was the seventh Governor of Florida
Born in Fairfield, New York, Marvin read law in 1834 and entered private practice in Phelps, New York in 1834. President Andrew Jackson appointed him United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Territory at Key West in 1835, and he served in that position until 1839. Marvin served as a United States. territorial judge on the United States. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Territory from 1839 to 1847.
Florida became a United States. state in 1845.
On March 2, 1847, President James K. Polk nominated him to a seat on the newly created United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, created by 9 Statistics 131. Confirmed by the Senate on March 3, 1847, he received his commission on March 3, 1847.
Marvin resigned from the court on July 1, 1863 (since 1861, during the American Civil War, Florida had seceded from the Union and been part of the Confederacy). Marvin was in private practice in New York City in 1863 to 1865.
Marvin was appointed provisional governor of Florida on July 13, 1865, by President Andrew Johnson, to reestablish the government of the state after the end of the American Civil War.
Marvin left office on December 20, 1865. The Florida Legislature elected him to the United States Senate as a Democrat, but the United States. Senate refused to recognize the election and denied him a seat. Following the decision by the federal government to reconstruct the former Confederacy, he refused to run for any office.
In 1867, he left Florida and moved to Skaneateles, New New York
He remained in private practice until his death in Skaneateles in 1902. Marvin was the author of a nationally recognized textbook entitled Law of Wreck and Salvage, on salvage law.