Philip Pendleton Barbour

Philip Pendleton Barbour ( born May 25, 1783 in Frascati, near Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia; † February 25, 1841 in Washington, DC) was an American lawyer and politician, member of the House of Representatives, whose spokesman he was from 1821 to 1823 and Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court

Early years

Philip Barbour was born on May 25, 1783, the son of Thomas Barbour and Mary Pendleton Thomas in the small village of Frascati, in Orange County, Virginia, and his brother was the later Governor of Virginia, James Barbour. He went to a public, private later on a school and studied at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. He completed his studies in 1799, shortly after he opened a law practice in Bardstown, Kentucky. In 1801 he finally moved back to Gordonsville to operate in Virginia.

Policy

Barbour's political career started in 1812 with the arrival in the House of Representatives from Virginia. After the death of Representatives John Dawson in 1814 he won the supplementary election to fill the vacated seat again. On 19 September 1814, he retired as a deputy of the Democratic-Republican Party, a House of Representatives. From 1821 to 1823 he was the chairman of the house. In the elections of 1824 he declined re-election, as in 1825 an offer, a professor at the University of Virginia to become. Instead, he became a judge on the Court in Virginia, where he stayed for two years. In 1827 he resigned to return as deputy of the Jacksonians, the predecessor of today's Democratic Party, in the House of Representatives. He beat out several offers, the Office of the Attorney General, he was offered.

Ultimately, however, he accepted the offer of President Jackson, as successor to the late George Hay Judge of the United States Circuit Court in Virginia to be. From October 15 1830 the date on which he resigned from the House of Representatives, until March 17, 1836, he served there. He also struck out deals so it should be this time Senator and Governor until he was employed on May 12, 1836, the judge of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served there as a successor to the retiring Gabriel Duvall until his death on 25 February 1841 and was buried at the cemetery Congress.

Patron

According to him the following cities and counties are named:

• Barbour County, West Virginia
• Philippi, West Virginia