Stephen C. Phillips

Stephen Clarendon Phillips (born November 4, 1801 in Salem , Massachusetts , †  June 26, 1857 on the Saint Lawrence River ) was an American politician . Between 1834 and 1838 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Stephen Phillips studied at Harvard University until 1819 and then worked in commerce in his hometown of Salem. At the same time he began a political career. In the 1820s he joined the movement against future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and later the Whig Party . He joined the Free Soil Party in the late 1840s . He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1824 to 1829 and a member of the State Senate in 1830 .

After the resignation of MP Rufus Choate , Phillips was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the second seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on December 1, 1834. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on September 28, 1838 . Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

Phillips was Mayor of Salem from 1838 to 1842. He then ran twice as a Free Soil Party candidate for governor of Massachusetts, without success . He later went to Canada , where he worked in the timber business. He died on June 26, 1857 in a ship fire on the steamer "Montreal" on the Saint Lawrence River and was buried in Salem.

Web links

• Stephen C. Phillips in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Stephen C. Phillips in the database of Find a Grave (English)