About Phillip Rootes Thompson
Birth: Mar. 26, 1766 Fredericksburg City Virginia, USA Death: Jul. 27, 1837 Saint Albans Kanawha County West Virginia, USA
U.S. House of Representatives, Lawyer He was elected a Democrat in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1793 to 1797. Served in U.S. House of Representatives 18th Congressional District, from 1801 to 1803. Served again from March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1807 in House of Representatives from the 9th district. He gave land for a church at the mouth of the Coal River and named it St. Mark's for his father's Culpeper County parish. He built the first house, still standing, in St. Albans.
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