Phanuel Bishop

Democratic Republican Representative of Massachusetts's 9th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

September 3, 1739 (72 years old)

Birthday

January 6, 1812

Death

Served as a United States representative from Massachusetts
Attended common schools and was an innkeeper before entering politics
Served in the Massachusetts State Senate from 1787 to 1791
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1792, 1793, 1797, and 1798
Elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixth through Ninth Congresses (March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1807)
One of six Democratic-Republican representatives to vote against the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Represented Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district from 1799 to 1803 and the 9th district from 1803 to 1807
Died in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and was interred in Old Cemetery, Rumford, Rhode Island