List of United States Political Families (P) - The Phips

The Phips

• Sir William Phips (1651–1695), Governor of Province of Massachusetts Bay 1692-1694. Uncle and adoptive father of Spencer Phips.
  • Spencer Phips (1685–1757), acting Governor of Province of Massachusetts Bay 1749-1753 1756-1757. Nephew and adopted son of William Phips.

Timothy Pickering,(1745, Salem Mass. - 1829, Salem Mass.) Harvard Graduate (1763); Admitted to Bar (1768); Salem, Mass. Selectman & Assessor(1772-1777); County Clerk of Essex County, Mass.(1774); Committee on State of Rights of Colonists(1773); Committee of Correspondence and Safety (1774-1775); entered Revolutionary Army as Colonel (1775); Mass. State Legislature (1776); appointed adjutant General of the Continental Army, by Gen. George Washington (1777); United States Board of War (1777); Quartermaster General of United States Army (1780); Luzerne County, Penn. Representative, State Constitutional Convention to Ratify the United States Constitution(1789-1790); appointed Special Government Agent to Indians of Penn., by Pres. George Washington (1790); appointed United States Postmaster General, by Pres. George Washington (1791); appointed Secretary of War, by Pres. George Washington, & retained by Pres. John Adams(1795-1800), concurrently Secretary of State, appointed Pres. John Adams(1800); United States Senator, Mass., Federalist Party (1803-1811); Council of Massachusetts (1812-1813); United States Representative, Mass., Federalist Party (1813-1817); yoamen Farmer (1817-1829).