Stephen C. Phillips

Stephen Clarendon Phillips ( * November 4, 1801 in Salem, Massachusetts, † June 26, 1857 on the Saint Lawrence River ) was an American politician. Between 1834 and 1838 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Phillips studied until 1819 at Harvard University and then worked in his home town of Salem in the trade. At the same time he began a political career. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and later the Whig Party. Late 1840s he joined the Free Soil Party. Between 1824 and 1829 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, and in 1830 he was a member of the State Senate.

Following the resignation of Mr Rufus Choate, Phillips was at the due election for the second seat from Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 1 December 1834. After two re- elections he could remain until his resignation on September 28, 1838 in Congress. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

From 1838 to 1842 Phillips was mayor of Salem. Then he applied twice unsuccessfully as a candidate of the Free Soil Party for the office of governor of Massachusetts. Later he went to Canada where he worked in the lumber business. He died on June 26, 1857, in a ship fire on the steamer "Montreal" on the Saint Lawrence River and was buried in Salem.