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Philip Pendleton Barbour (view source)
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, 23:13, November 13, 2007New page: Philip Pendleton Barbour, (brother of James Barbour and cousin of John Strode Barbour) , a Representative from Virginia; born at “Frascati,” near Gordonsville, Orange County, Va.,...
Philip Pendleton Barbour, (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 [[Andrew Jackson|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.
==References==
*http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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==References==
*http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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[[Category:United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Speakers of the House(US)]]