# Thomas Phoenix

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'''Thomas Phoenix''' was an American lawyer and politician from [New York](/source/New_York_(state)).

==Name==
The family name '''Phoenix''', sometimes spelled '''Phœnix''', derives from the [homophonous](/source/homophonous) English family name '''Fenwicks''' which is pronounced like FENN-ix. (This is quite different from the Greek mythological bird and the Arizona state capital which are pronounced like FEE-nix.) The Fenwicks resided originally at the [Fenwick Tower](/source/Fenwick_Tower_(Northumberland)) in [Northumberland](/source/Northumberland).

==Life==
Phoenix graduated [A.B.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) from [Columbia College](/source/Columbia_College_of_Columbia_University) in 1795. He was admitted to the bar in 1798.

He was [New York County District Attorney](/source/New_York_County_District_Attorney) from 1835 to 1838. In 1836, he prosecuted Richard P. Robinson for the murder of [Helen Jewett](/source/Helen_Jewett), but lost the case to [Ogden Hoffman](/source/Ogden_Hoffman), his predecessor in the D.A's office, who appeared for the defence and secured Robinson's acquittal.

==Sources==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9SOhECjz90C&pg=PA309 ''Prominent Families of New York''] (page 309)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=3YAfAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 ''Catalogue of Officers and Graduates''] issued by Columbia College (page 47)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=rIFLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA653 ''Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors''] (1839, pages 653ff; with a report on his accounts as D.A.)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=cQ8AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA29 ''Documents of the Board of Aldermen''] (1841–42, Vol. VIII, page 29, rejecting his claim for extra compensation as D.A.)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA877 ''The New York Civil List''] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 377; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

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| before = [Ogden Hoffman](/source/Ogden_Hoffman) 
| title = [New York County District Attorney](/source/New_York_County_District_Attorney) | years=1835–1838 
| after=[James R. Whiting](/source/James_R._Whiting)
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