菲利普·彭德尔顿·巴伯，弗吉尼亚州国会(1783-1841)

巴伯,菲利普·彭德尔顿，(詹姆斯·巴伯的兄弟，约翰·斯特罗德·巴伯的堂兄)，弗吉尼亚州众议员;1783年5月25日生于弗吉尼亚州奥兰治县戈登斯维尔附近的“弗拉斯卡蒂”;上过普通学校和私立学校;1799年毕业于弗吉尼亚州威廉斯堡的威廉玛丽学院;学习法律;1800年获得律师资格，并开始在肯塔基州的巴德斯敦执业;1801年回到弗吉尼亚，在奥兰治县的戈登斯维尔当律师;1812年至1814年担任州议会代表;作为共和党人当选为第十三届国会，以填补约翰·道森去世造成的空缺;连任第十四届至第十七届国会的共和党人，连任第十八届国会的克劳福德共和党人，任期从1814年9月19日至1825年3月3日; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Seventeenth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1824; offered the professorship of law in the University of Virginia in 1825, but declined; appointed a judge of the general court of Virginia and served for two years, resigning in 1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1827, until his resignation on October 15, 1830; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twentieth Congress); president of the Virginia constitutional convention in 1829; appointed by President Jackson, June 1, 1830, judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, declining the chancellorship and the post of attorney general; refused nominations for judge of the court of appeals, for Governor, and for United States Senator; appointed Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and served from March 15, 1836, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 25, 1841; interment in Congressional Cemetery.

资料来源:《美国国会传记名录》，1771年至今