OVERVIEW:
FULL NAME:
Philip Pendleton Barbour
BORN:
May 25, 1783,
Gordonsville, Virginia
DIED:
February 25, 1841 (age 57)
Washington, DC
POLITICAL PARTIES:
Republican
Crawford Republican
Jacksonian
EDUCATION:
College of William & Mary (1799)
HIGHLIGHTS:
1800:
Admitted to the Bar,
Began Practicing Law in Bardstown, Kentucky
1801:
Returned to Virginia
1802-1812:
Practiced Law in Orange County, Virginia
1812-1814:
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
1814-1825:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives
1825-1827:
Judge, General Court of Virginia
1827-1830:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives
1821-1823:
Speaker of the House of Representatives
1827-1829:
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
1829:
President of the Virginia Constitutional Convention
1830-1836:
Judge, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia
1836-1841:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
SOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Biographical Directory of Congress
Encyclopedia Virginia
U.S. House of Representatives
Congressional Quarterly
Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Wikipedia