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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Virginia / USPhilip Pendleton BARBOUR
(1783-1841)
BARBOUR, Philip Pendleton,
(brother of James Barbour and cousin of John Strode Barbour) , a
Representative from Virginia; born at “Frascati,” near
Gordonsville, Orange County, Va., May 25, 1783; attended common and
private schools; was graduated from the college of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1799; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1800 and commenced practice in Bardstown, Ky.; returned to
Virginia in 1801 and practiced law in Gordonsville, Orange County;
member of the State house of delegates 1812-1814; elected as a
Republican to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of John Dawson; reelected as a Republican to the
Fourteenth through the Seventeenth Congresses, reelected as a
Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and served from
September 19, 1814, to March 3, 1825; Speaker of the House of
Representatives (Seventeenth Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1824; offered the professorship of law in the
University of Virginia in 1825, but declined; appointed a judge of
the general court of Virginia and served for two years, resigning
in 1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth and Twenty-first
Congresses and served from March 4, 1827, until his resignation on
October 15, 1830; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twentieth
Congress); president of the Virginia constitutional convention in
1829; appointed by President Jackson, June 1, 1830, judge of the
United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,
declining the chancellorship and the post of attorney general;
refused nominations for judge of the court of appeals, for
Governor, and for United States Senator; appointed Associate
Justice of the United States Supreme Court and served from March
15, 1836, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 25, 1841;
interment in Congressional Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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