William A. Phillips

William Addison Phillips ( born January 14, 1824 in Paisley, Scotland, † November 30, 1893 in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Phillips attended the schools of his native Scotland. In 1838 he emigrated with his parents to America. The family first settled in Randolph County, Illinois, where she worked in agriculture. Between 1845 and 1862 William Phillips worked as a newspaper correspondent; at the same time he studied law. After qualifying as a lawyer in 1855, he began practicing in his new profession in Lawrence Kansas Territory. Then he became a judge at the Supreme Court of this Territory. Phillips was also the founder of the city of Salina, Kansas.

During the Civil War he assisted in the excavation of the first troops in Kansas. Later he commanded as colonel of a regiment, which consisted mainly of Cherokeeindianern and fought on the side of the Union. After the war he became district attorney in 1865 in Cherokee County in the year. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1865 he was elected as its candidate in the House of Representatives of Kansas. Subsequently, he was a legal representative of the Cherokee in Washington.

In the congressional elections of 1872, which were held all across the state, Phillips was the third deputy seat of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. This mandate he stepped on 4 March 1873. Two years later he moved to the first electoral district. There he entered on March 4, 1875 on the succession of David Perley Lowe. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 three legislative periods. In 1878, he was not nominated by his party.

In 1890, Phillips tried unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died in 1893 in Fort Gibson in what was then Indian Territory; now part of this site to Oklahoma. He was buried in Salina.