Philip H. Stoll

Philip Henry Stoll ( born November 5, 1874 in Little Rock, Dillon County, South Carolina, † October 29, 1958 in Columbia, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Philip Stoll attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1897, the Wofford College in Spartanburg. Meantime he worked until 1901 as a teacher himself. After studying law and its made ​​in 1901 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Kingstree.

Politically, Stoll joined the Democratic Party. In the years 1905 and 1906 he was a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina. From 1908 to 1917 Stoll worked as a prosecutor in the third judicial district of South Carolina. In addition, he was district chairman of his party and a member of the State Board of the Democrats of South Carolina. During the First World War Stoll served in the years 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant colonel in the legal department of the U.S. Army.

After the death of Congressman J. Willard Ragsdale Philip Stoll was at the election due in the sixth constituency of South Carolina as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. He resigned on October 7, 1919 at its new mandate. After he was confirmed in the regular congressional elections of 1920, he could remain until March 3, 1923 Congress. At this time there the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, by the women's suffrage was introduced nationwide.

For the elections of 1922, Stoll was not nominated by his party. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Between 1929 and 1931 he was again in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. After that, he was from 1931 to 1946 judges in the third judicial district. In 1946, Stoll moved back into retirement. He died on October 29, 1958 in Columbia.