Elijah Phister

Elijah Conner Phister ( born October 8, 1822 in Maysville, Kentucky, † May 16, 1887 ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Elijah Phister attended the Seminary of Rand and Richardson in his hometown of Maysville. Then he studied until 1840 at Augusta College. After a subsequent law studies and his 1844 was admitted to a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession. In 1848 he became mayor of his hometown of Maysville. Between 1856 and 1862 served as a District Judge Phister.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1867 and 1871 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In 1872 he turned down an offer to participate in a commission for the revision of the state legislature. In the congressional elections of 1878 Phister in the tenth constituency of Kentucky was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Blades Clarke on March 4, 1879. After a re-election in 1880 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two legislative sessions.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Elijah Phister again worked as a lawyer. He died on 16 May 1887 in his birthplace of Maysville.