Stephen C. Phillips

{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Stephen C. Phillips | image = Stephen Clarendon Phillips.png | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district|2nd]] | term_start = December 1, 1834 | term_end = September 28, 1838 | preceded = [[Rufus Choate]] | succeeded = [[Leverett Saltonstall I|Leverett Saltonstall]] | order2 = 2nd [[List of mayors of Salem, Massachusetts|Mayor]] of<br>[[Salem, Massachusetts]] | term_start2 = 1838 | term_end2 = March 1842 | predecessor2 = [[Leverett Saltonstall I|Leverett Saltonstall]] | successor2 = Stephen Palfray Webb | office3 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]] | term3 = 1830 | office4 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term4 = 1824-1829 | birth_name = Stephen Clarendon Phillips | birth_date = November 4, 1801 | birth_place = [[Salem, Massachusetts]] | death_date = June 26, 1857 (aged 55) | death_place = [[St. Lawrence River]], near [[Quebec City|Quebec City, Quebec]] | spouse = Jane Appleton Peele, m. November 6, 1822, d. December 19, 1837; Margaret Mason Peele, m. September 3, 1838, d. July 15, 1883<ref name="Hurd_HistEsCntyMa pg236"/> | alma_mater = [[Harvard College|Harvard]]<ref name="Hurd_HistEsCntyMa pg236">{{Citation | last=Hurd|first= Duane Hamilton| title = History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume 1, Issue 1 | page = 236 | publisher = J. W. Lewis & CO. | location = Philadelphia, PA | year = 1888}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| title = Essex Institute historical collections, Volume 15 | page = 162 | publisher = The Essex Institute | location = Salem, MA | year = 1878}}</ref> | children = [[Stephen Henry Phillips|Stephen H. Phillips]] | party = [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]], [[Free Soil Party|Free Soil]]<ref>{{Citation| title = Essex Institute historical collections, Volume 15 | page = 289 | publisher = The Essex Institute | location = Salem, MA | year = 1878}}</ref> | signature = Stephen C. Phillips signature.png }} '''Stephen Clarendon Phillips''' (November 4, 1801 – June 26, 1857) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

Phillips was born in [[Salem, Massachusetts]], to Stephen and Dorcas (Woodbridge) Phillips.<ref>{{Citation| title = Essex Institute historical collections, Volume 15 | page = 288 | publisher = The Essex Institute | location = Salem, MA | year = 1878}}</ref> He was a descendant of Rev. George Phillips of [[Watertown, Massachusetts|Watertown]], the progenitor of the New England Phillips family in America.<ref>Bond, Henry and Jones, Horatio. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston: To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1860, pgs. 872-882</ref> He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1819. Phillips' engaged in mercantile pursuits in Salem, and was a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] from 1824 to 1829. He then served in the [[Massachusetts State Senate]] in 1830.

Phillips was elected as a [[National Republican]] to the [[Twenty-third Congress]] to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Rufus Choate]]. He was reelected as a National Republican to the [[Twenty-fourth Congress]], and elected as a [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] to the [[Twenty-fifth Congress]] serving from December 1, 1834, to September 28, 1838, when he resigned.

Phillips was mayor of Salem from 1838 to 1842, but was defeated as the [[Free Soil Party|Free Soil]] candidate for governor in 1848 and 1849. He engaged in the lumber business in Canada. He perished in the burning of the steamer ''Montreal'' on the [[St. Lawrence River]] on June 26, 1857, near [[Quebec City]].<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13000361 Sydney Morning Herald]</ref> His body was never found, but there is a monument to him in [[Harmony Grove Cemetery]] in Salem.

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