Stephen Henry Phillips
Stephen Henry Phillips | |
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Kingdom of Hawaii | |
| In office July 18, 1868 – December 31, 1869 | |
| Preceded by | Charles de Varigny |
| Succeeded by | Charles Coffin Harris |
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| Born | August 16, 1823 Salem, Massachusetts |
| Died | April 8, 1897 (aged 73) [2] Salem, Massachusetts |
| Political party | Republican |
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Stephen Henry Phillips (August 16, 1823 – April 9, 1897) was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of
Early life
Phillips was born August 16, 1823, in Salem, Massachusetts. He was the eldest son of Jane Appleton (Peele) Phillips and politician Stephen C. Phillips (1801–1857). Phillips was a descendant of Rev. George Phillips of Watertown, the progenitor of the New England Phillips family in America.[3]
Phillips studied at various private schools in Salem, New York, and Washington, D.C. He entered Harvard University in 1838 when only 15 years old, graduating in 1842, as a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. Phillips then studied law at the Harvard Law School. One of his teachers there was Joseph Story, who was on the Supreme Court of the United States at the time.[4]
Massachusetts politics
From 1851 to 1853, Phillips was the district attorneys of
Hawaiian Islands
A fellow student at Harvard was
Phillips temporarily acted as minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet from July 18, 1868, to December 31, 1869, while Charles de Varigny was in France trying to negotiate a treaty. On December 31, 1869, Charles Coffin Harris became minister of foreign affairs.[7] Phillips returned to marry Margaret Duncan on October 3, 1871, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She was daughter of another politician, James H. Duncan (1793–1869).[4]
Back to the mainland
After the death of Kamehameha V, the new king
References
- ^ a b "The Hawaiian Islands and their New Attorney-General" (PDF). The New York Times. November 16, 1866. p. 2. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
- ^ Chicago Daily Tribune (April 9, 1897), obit, Chicago, Ill.: The Chicago Daily Tribune, p. 4
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d Robert S. Rantoul (1888). Duane Hamilton Hurd (ed.). History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Company. pp. xlviii–li.
- ^ Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. 1922. p. 845. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- ^ "Phillips, Stephen H. office record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
- ^ "Foreign affairs, Minister of, office record" (PDF). state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 20, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
- ^ "Attorney General, office record" (PDF). state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 30, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
External links
- All about Hawaii. The recognized book of authentic information on Hawaii, combined with Thrum's Hawaiian annual and standard guide ((original from University of Michigan)). Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 1891. pp. 92–97 – via HathiTrust.
- "A List of All the Cabinet Ministers Who Have Held Office in the Hawaiian Kingdom"
- Woods, Roberta. "LibGuides: Hawai'i Legal Research: Attorney General Opinions". law-hawaii.libguides.com.
- Includes a list of Attorneys General for the Kingdom of Hawaii, their salaries and budgets
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