Felix Senac

Felix Senac
Senac photographed c.1853
Confederate States Navy Agent to Europe
Personal details
Born(1815-07-28)July 28, 1815
Pensacola, Florida, U.S.
DiedJanuary 27, 1866(1866-01-27) (aged 50)
Wiesbaden, Germany
Spouse
Marie Louise Hollinger
(m. 1841)
ChildrenRuby (daughter)

Felix Senac (July 28, 1815  January 27, 1866) was a Confederate States Navy agent to Europe from 1862 to 1865.

A native of Pensacola, Florida, Senac married in Mobile, Alabama, and moved his family to Key West just prior to the American Civil War. In 1861 he tendered his resignation as Paymaster of the USS Susquehanna while the vessel was still in La Spezia, Italy. He would be paymaster of the Confederate navy in Europe until the end of the Civil War. He died in 1866 while in Wiesbaden, Germany. His daughter Ruby married the famous Confederate propagandist Henry Hotze in 1867 in Paris.

Senac was related by marriage to Confederate States Navy secretary Stephen Mallory and Marine Corps 2nd lieutenant John L. Rapier. In a letter to the Confederate agent James Dunwoody Bulloch, Mallory describes him thus: "He speaks French with purity and elegance, Spanish also, possesses fine business capacity, and is a gentleman of ripe judgement and rare merit".