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PHILIP P. BARBOUR
was born in Orange County, Virginia on May 25, 1783. He
attended local public schools and, at the age of seventeen,
begun reading law. He moved to Kentucky to practice but
soon returned to Virginia where he attended one session
of the College of William and Mary in 1801. He was admitted
to the Virginia bar and established a law practice the
following year. Barbour was elected to the Virginia House
of Delegates in 1812. He was elected to the United States
House of Representatives in 1814 and was re-elected to
four additional terms. He served as Speaker of the House
from 1821 to 1823. Barbour did not seek re-election to
the House in 1824 but accepted an appointment as a Judge
on the General Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
He was chosen President of the Virginia Constitutional
Convention in 1829. Barbour was elected for the sixth
time to Congress in 1827. At the end of the term in 1830,
he accepted an appointment from President Andrew Jackson
to the United States District Court in Virginia. Five
years later, on February 28, 1835, President Jackson nominated
Barbour to the Supreme Court of the United States. The
Senate confirmed the appointment on March 15, 1836. He
served on the Supreme Court for four years and died on
February 25, 1841, at the age of fifty-seven. |
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