Philip Swenk Markley

Philip Swenk Markley (* July 2, 1789 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, † September 12, 1834 ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1827 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Philip Markley received an academic education. After a subsequent law degree in 1810 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Norristown to work in this profession. In 1819 and 1820 he was deputy prosecutor. Politically, he joined the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1820 and 1823 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. The early 1820s, he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson.

In the congressional elections of 1822 Markley was in the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James McSherry on March 4, 1823. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1827 two legislative sessions. At the time of his re-election he had broken away from Jackson and President John Quincy Adams connected. Since 1825, the work of the Congress was increasingly burdened by the tensions between the Jackson Group and the Adams supporters. In 1826, Markley was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. Later he worked as a Naval Officer with the Port Authority of Philadelphia. In 1829 he held the office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania. Philip Markley died on September 12, 1834 in Norristown, where he was also buried.