# Stephen C. Phillips

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Stephen C. Phillips Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 2nd district In office December 1, 1834 – September 28, 1838 Preceded by Rufus Choate Succeeded by Leverett Saltonstall 2nd Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts In office 1838 – March 1842 Preceded by Leverett Saltonstall Succeeded by Stephen Palfray Webb Member of the Massachusetts Senate In office 1830 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives In office 1824-1829 Personal details Born Stephen Clarendon Phillips November 4, 1801 Salem, Massachusetts Died June 26, 1857 (aged 55) St. Lawrence River, near Quebec City, Quebec Party Whig, Free Soil[1] Spouse(s) Jane Appleton Peele, m. November 6, 1822, d. December 19, 1837; Margaret Mason Peele, m. September 3, 1838, d. July 15, 1883[2] Children Stephen H. Phillips Alma mater Harvard[2][3] Signature

**Stephen Clarendon Phillips** (November 4, 1801 – June 26, 1857) was a [U.S. representative](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts).

Phillips was born in [Salem, Massachusetts](/source/Salem%2C_Massachusetts), to Stephen and Dorcas (Woodbridge) Phillips.[4] He was a descendant of Rev. George Phillips of [Watertown](/source/Watertown%2C_Massachusetts), the progenitor of the New England Phillips family in America.[5] He graduated from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) in 1819. Phillips' engaged in mercantile pursuits in Salem, and was a member of the [Massachusetts House of Representatives](/source/Massachusetts_House_of_Representatives) from 1824 to 1829. He then served in the [Massachusetts State Senate](/source/Massachusetts_State_Senate) in 1830.

Phillips was elected as a [National Republican](/source/National_Republican) to the [Twenty-third Congress](/source/Twenty-third_Congress) to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [Rufus Choate](/source/Rufus_Choate). He was reelected as a National Republican to the [Twenty-fourth Congress](/source/Twenty-fourth_Congress), and elected as a [Whig](/source/Whig_Party_(United_States)) to the [Twenty-fifth Congress](/source/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](/source/Free_Soil_Party) 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](/source/St._Lawrence_River) on June 26, 1857, near [Quebec City](/source/Quebec_City).[6] His body was never found, but there is a monument to him in [Harmony Grove Cemetery](/source/Harmony_Grove_Cemetery) in Salem.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** *Essex Institute historical collections, Volume 15*, Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1878, p. 289

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Hurd_HistEsCntyMa_pg236_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Hurd_HistEsCntyMa_pg236_2-1) Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1888), *History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume 1, Issue 1*, Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & CO., p. 236

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** *Essex Institute historical collections, Volume 15*, Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1878, p. 162

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** *Essex Institute historical collections, Volume 15*, Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1878, p. 288

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** 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

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Sydney Morning Herald](https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13000361)

Party political offices First Free Soil nominee for Governor of Massachusetts 1848, 1849, 1850 Succeeded by John G. Palfrey U.S. House of Representatives Preceded by Rufus Choate Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district December 1, 1834 – September 28, 1838 Succeeded by Leverett Saltonstall Political offices Preceded by Leverett Saltonstall 2nd Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts 1838–1842 Succeeded by Stephen Palfrey Webb

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