Philemon Bliss

Republican Representative of Ohio's 14th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

July 28, 1813 (76 years old)

Birthday

August 25, 1889

Death

Born in Canton, Connecticut in 1813.
Attended Fairfield Academy and Hamilton College, studying law.
Began practicing law in Ohio after passing the bar in 1840.
Served as presiding judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit of Ohio from 1848 to 1851.
Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving in the 34th and 35th Congresses.
Appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory in 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln.
Served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1868 to 1872.
Became Law Dean at the University of Missouri after retiring from the bench.
Died in 1889 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and is buried in Columbia, Missouri.
A scholarship at the University of Missouri School of Law is named in his honor.