Biography

10/04/1803 - 05/08/1884

OLIPHANT, Ethelbert Pendleton, a Representative from Fayette County; born, October 4, 1803 in Fairchance, Fayette County, Pa.; graduated, Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College), 1825; adjutant, 4^th Regiment, Whiteside’s Brigade, Illinois Militia (1832, Black Hawk War); lawyer (1828-1884); appointed, attorney general, Fayette County (1830); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1830-1831 term; clerk, State Law Department, Harrisburg (1833-1836); elected, commissioner, Fayette County (1837-1838); school teacher; elected, school superintendent (1847-1848); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Uniontown (1855-1856); Presidential appointee, associate justice, Supreme Court of Washington Territory (1861-1865); clerk, Department of the Interior, United States (1866-1884); died, May 8, 1884 in Washington, District of Columbia; interred, Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia.