Samuel Phillips Junior

Samuel Phillips

Samuel Phillips Jr. (born February 5, 1752 in Andover , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  February 10, 1802 there ) was an American politician . In 1801 and 1802 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Massachusetts .

Career

Samuel Phillips attended the Governor Dummer Academy and then studied at Harvard University until 1771 . Later he operated a sawmill, a paper mill and a gunpowder factory during the revolution powder for the American forces in the Revolutionary War created. Phillips also embarked on a political career. Between 1775 and 1780 he was a member of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress; from 1780 to 1801 he sat with a one-year hiatus in the Massachusetts Senate . From 1785 he was its president. During his time in the Provincial Congress he was involved in drafting the state constitution . In 1780 he was one of the first members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Politically, he became a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton in the late 1790s .

In 1800, Phillips was elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. He held this office between 1801 and his death on February 10, 1802. He was deputy to Governor Caleb Strong . His most important work, however, was the establishment of the Phillips Academy in Andover in 1778. His uncle John Phillips (1719–1795) was the founder of the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire . For a long time, both schools were in competition. Samuel Phillips was also related to William Phillips , who was also to become Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. The two lieutenant governors and other family members were all buried in a common grave.

Web links

• Samuel Phillips Jr. in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard
• Short biography
• Samuel Phillips in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ William Phillips in the Find a Grave database