Philip H. Stoll

Philip H. Stoll

Philip Henry Stoll (born November 5, 1874 in Little Rock , Dillon County , South Carolina , †  October 29, 1958 in Columbia , South Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Philip Stoll attended the public schools in his home country and then until 1897 Wofford College in Spartanburg . In the meantime he worked as a teacher himself until 1901. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1901, he began practicing his new profession in Kingstree .

Politically, Stoll joined the Democratic Party . In 1905 and 1906 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina . From 1908 to 1917 Stoll served as a district attorney in the Third Judicial District of South Carolina. He also became his party's district chairman and a member of the state board of the South Carolina Democrats. During the First World War , Stoll served as a lieutenant colonel in the legal department of the US Army in 1917 and 1918 .

After the death of Congressman J. Willard Ragsdale , Philip Stoll was elected as his successor to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the due by-election in the sixth constituency of South Carolina . There he took up his new mandate on October 7, 1919. After he was confirmed in the regular congressional elections of 1920, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1923 . During this time, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was passed, which introduced women's suffrage nationwide.

For the elections in 1922, Stoll was no longer nominated by his party. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Between 1929 and 1931 he sat again in the South Carolina House of Representatives. He then served as a judge in the South Carolina Third Judicial District from 1931 to 1946. In 1946 Stoll retired. He died in Columbia on October 29, 1958.

Web links

• Philip H. Stoll in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Philip H. Stoll in the database of Find a Grave (English)