Philip Bond Fouke (January 23, 1818 – October 3, 1876) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Illinois
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.
Biography
Born in
Kaskaskia, Illinois
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, Fouke attended the public schools and became a civil engineer.
He established and published the Belleville Advocate in 1841.
He studied law.
He was
admitted to the bar
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in 1845 and commenced practice in
Belleville.
He served as prosecuting attorney for the Kaskaskia district (second circuit) 1846–1850.
He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1851.
He unsuccessfully contested the election of
Lyman Trumbull
Lyman Trumbull (October 12, 1813 – June 25, 1896) was a lawyer, judge, and United States Senator from Illinois and the co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Born in Colchester, Connecticut, Trumbull esta ...
to the
Thirty-fourth Congress.
Fouke was elected as a
Democrat
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to the
Thirty-sixth and
Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1863).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862.
During the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
he served as colonel of the
30th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was wounded at the
Battle of Belmont
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.
After the war, he engaged in the practice of law in
Washington, D.C.
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, and died there October 3, 1876. He was interred in the
Congressional Cemetery
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.
References
Retrieved on 2008-02-14
External links
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1818 births
1876 deaths
Union Army colonels
People of Illinois in the American Civil War
Burials at the Congressional Cemetery
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
19th-century American politicians
People from Kaskaskia, Illinois
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