Biography

1766 - 10/13/1846

Crawford, Erie and Warren Counties (1808-1813), Erie and Warren Counties (1824-1825)

PHILLIPS, John, a Representative from Crawford, Erie and Warren Counties; born, 1766 in Lancaster County, Pa.; private, Pennsylvania Militia (1785-1786, Revolutionary War); paymaster, Second Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia (1812-1813, War of 1812); major general, Sixteenth Division, Pennsylvania Militia (1814, War of 1812); elected, commissioner, Erie County (1804-1807); elected as a Democratic Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1808-1809, 1809-1810 and 1812-1813 terms; reelected to the House as a Republican for the 1810-1811 and 1811-1812 terms; appointed, justice of the peace (1816, 1825); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1818); reelected to the House as a Democrat for the 1824-1825 term; appointed, commissioner, Pennsylvania Canal (1826-1829); unsuccessful campaign, auditor, Erie County (1832); died, October 13, 1846 in Venango Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania; interred, Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie County, Pennsylvania.