P. Phillips family papers, 1832-1914

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1807, Dec. 13	Born, Charleston, S.C.
1828	Admitted to bar
1832	Delegate to South Carolina State Constitutional Convention (nullification)
1833-1835	Member, South Carolina house of representatives
1836	Married Eugenia Yates Levy (died 1913)
1836-1853	Practiced law in Mobile, Ala.
1837	President, Alabama Democratic state convention
1844	Member, Alabama house of representatives
1850	Admitted to United States Supreme Court
1851	Member, Alabama house of representatives
1853-1855	Member, United States House of Representatives, 33rd Congress
1856	Began law practice in Washington, D. C.
1861	Wife, Eugenia Levy Phillips, interned for Confederate sympathies Family sent south to Crany Island via Fort Monroe as suspected spies for Confederate States of America. Began New Orleans, La., bar practice
1862	Wife, Eugenia Levy Phillips, confined to Ship Island as rebel spy and finally released by Benjamin Butler as prisoner of war after three months
1862-1866	Began law practice in La Grange, Ga., and New Orleans, La.
1867	Removed to Washington, D. C., and resumed United States Supreme Court practice
1884, Jan. 14	Died, Washington, D. C.

Date	Event
1853	Born, Washington, D. C.
1871	Graduated, Columbia College, Washington, D. C.
1885-1897	Special agent to investigate conditions in Yellowstone National Park
1887	Admitted to Supreme Court
1897	Drowned in Washington, D. C.