Felix Senac

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 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".

Early life Felix Senac was born on July 28, 1815, in Spanish Pensacola to Pierre and Agnes (née Krebs) Senac of French New Orleans. In 1821, Florida became a U.S. territory and he subsequently became a U.S. citizen. His cousin Angela Moreno of Spanish descent, also born in 1815 in Pensacola, would later marry in 1838 Stephen Mallory, the future C.S. Navy secretary. In 1841, Senac married Marie Louise Hollinger in Mobile, Alabama, while serving as deputy postmaster in that city. Their only daughter, Ruby, would be born four years later in 1845.