John M. Phelps

John M. Phelps (* 1821 ; † August 26, 1884 in Point Pleasant , West Virginia ) was an American Republican Party politician who was President of the Senate of West Virginia between 1863 and 1865 and Secretary of the Senate from 1871 to 1883 State of the state of West Virginia was.

Life

Phelps took 1861 Mason County as a delegate in the meeting after her Wheeling named First Wheeling Convention where the establishment of the state of West Virginia and the separation from the slaveholding Virginia was decided. During the Civil War , he was captain company commander of the E-Company of the 9th Infantry Regiment of West Virginia, before retiring from active military service in 1863 to devote himself to entrepreneurial activity.

Phelps was a member of the West Virginia Senate for the first time between 1863 and 1865 as a representative of the Republican Party . At the constituent session on June 20, 1863 in Wheeling was elected the first President of the State Senate and held this position during the first half-year session until his replacement by William E. Stevenson in early 1864. At the Senate session on February 4, 1865 he voted for the abolition of slavery in West Virginia. In 1869 he was again a member of the state Senate, to which he was a member until 1871.

In 1870 Phelps was elected the fifth Secretary of State of West Virginia and held this office as the successor to James M. Pipes until he was replaced by Charles Hedrick in 1873. After his death he was buried in the Lone Oak Cemetery in Point Pleasant.

Web links

• John M. Phelps in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Short biography on the West Virginia Secretary of State homepage