John Finis Philips

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John Finis Philips

John Finis Philips (born December 31, 1834 in Thralls Prairie , Boone County , Missouri , †  March 13, 1919 in Hot Springs , Arkansas ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1875 and 1877 and again from 1880 to 1881 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives ; later he became a federal judge .

Career

John Philips attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at the University of Missouri in Columbia and then until 1855 at Center College in Danville ( Kentucky ). After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1857, he began to work in Georgetown (Missouri) in this profession. Politically, Philips was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1861 he was a delegate to a meeting in Missouri at which it was decided that the state should remain with the Union. During the Civil War , he served as Colonel in command of the Seventh Cavalry Volunteer Regiment . After the war he practiced as a lawyer in Sedalia . He was mayor of this city for some time.

In 1868 Philips took part as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in New York , where Horatio Seymour was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the same year he ran unsuccessfully for the congress . In the elections of 1874 he was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Thomas Theodore Crittenden on March 4, 1875 . Until March 3, 1877, he was initially able to complete a legislative period in Congress. After the death of Congressman Alfred Morrison Lay , Philips was re-elected for the seventh seat of Missouri as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he held the current legislative term between January 10, 1880 and March 3, 1881 finished. A candidacy for re-election failed in 1880.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Philips moved to Kansas City , where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1883 and 1885 he was State Commissioner for the Missouri Supreme Court ( Commissioner of the Missouri Supreme Court ). From 1885 to 1888 he served as an appellate judge in Kansas City. Between June 25, 1888 and June 25, 1910, Philips was then the successor to Arnold Krekel Richter at the federal district court for the western district of Missouri. After that, he retired. He died in Hot Springs on March 13, 1919 and was buried in Kansas City.

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SURNAME Philips, John Finis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Thralls Prairie , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1919
Place of death Hot Springs , Arkansas