Phanuel Bishop (September 3, 1739 – January 6, 1812) was a

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from

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. Born in Rehoboth in the

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, he attended the common schools, was an

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, and served in the

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from 1787 to 1791. He was a member of the

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in 1792, 1793, 1797, and 1798, and was elected as a

Democratic-Republican The Democratic-Republican Party, known at the time as the Republican Party and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early ...

to the Sixth through Ninth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1799 to March 3, 1807. He died in Rehoboth, Mass; interment was in Old Cemetery,

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