Philip Pendleton Barbour


Barbour, Philip Pendleton

(1783–1841) ; Supreme Court justice; born in Barboursville, Va. He was a member of the Virginia legislature (1812–14) and the U.S. House of Representatives (Dem., Va.; 1814–25, 1827–30). President Jackson named him to a federal district court in Virginia (1830) and to the U.S. Supreme Court (1836–41).