Philip Pendleton Barbour

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Philip Pendleton Barbour
12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
In office December 4, 1821 – March 4, 1823
President	James Monroe
Preceded by	John W. Taylor
Succeeded by	Henry Clay
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 11th district
In office September 19, 1814 – March 3, 1825 March 4, 1827 – October 15, 1830
Preceded by	John Dawson Robert Taylor
Succeeded by	Robert Taylor John M. Patton
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
In office May 12, 1836 – February 25, 1841
Preceded by	Gabriel Duval
Succeeded by	Peter V. Daniel
Born	May 25, 1783 Gordonsville, Virginia
Died	February 25, 1841 (aged 57) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Democratic-Republican Democratic
Alma mater	The College of William & Mary
Profession	Law

Philip Pendleton Barbour (May 25, 1783 – February 25, 1841) was a U.S. Congressman from Virginia and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was also the brother of Virginia governor and U.S. Secretary of War James Barbour as well as the first cousin of John S. Barbour and first cousin, once removed of John S. Barbour, Jr..

[edit] Biography

Barbour was born at "Frascati," near Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia. He attended common and private schools and graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1799. A year later he was admitted to the bar, and began practicing law in Bardstown, Kentucky. In 1801, he moved his law practice to Gordonsville in Orange County, Virginia.

Barbour started his public life as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1812 to 1814. When U.S. Representative John Dawson died, Barbour won the special election to fill the seat, and served as a Crawford Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from September 19, 1814 to March 4, 1825, reaching the office of Speaker from 1821 to 1823.

He declined to run for re-election in 1824 and turned down an offer to become the professor of law in the University of Virginia in 1825. Instead, he was appointed a judge of the general court of Virginia and served for two years, resigning in 1827 to return to his seat in the House of Representatives as a Jacksonian.

For the first two years of his second stint in the House, he was chair of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary. In 1829 he was president of the Virginia constitutional convention.while remaining a Representative. He turned down offers of a chancellorship and the post of U.S. Attorney General before finally resigning October 15, 1830 to accept President Jackson's appointment to be judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he served until March 17, 1836. ^[1]

Barbour continued to receive offers: he refused nominations for judge of the court of appeals, for Governor, and for United States Senator. Finally, he was offered appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Barbour served from May 12, 1836, until his death in Washington, DC, on February 25, 1841.

He was buried in Congressional Cemetery.

[edit] Places named for Philip Barbour

• Barbour County, West Virginia
• Philippi, West Virginia
• Philip Barbour High School in Philippi, West Virginia

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Philip Pendleton Barbour at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Philip Pendleton Barbour at Find A Grave

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