Political Office
During the Revolutionary War Phelps was Deputy Commissary of the Continental Army. He was introduced to Robert Morris, the great financier of Revolutionary times. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1778 to 1780; and a member of the United States Constitutional Convention in 1779 and 1780. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1785, and of the Governor’s council in 1786. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eighth United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1803, to March 4, 1805, and ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1804 on the ticket headed by Aaron Burr.
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