John Finis Philips (31 December 1834 – 13 March 1919) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MO 7) from 4 March 1875 to 3 March 1877 (interrupting Thomas Theodore Crittenden's terms) and from 10 January 1880 to 3 March 1881 (succeeding Alfred Morrison Lay and preceding Theron Moses Rice).
Biography[]
John Finis Philips was born in Boone County, Missouri in 1834, and he practiced law in Georgetown from 1857 to 1861 and served as a Union Army cavalry colonel during the American Civil War. After the war, he served as a delegate to the 1868 Democratic National Convention, as Mayor of Sedalia, in the US House of Representatives from 1875 to 1877 and from 1880 to 1881, as a lawyer in Kansas City from 1881 to 1882, and as a district court judge from 1888 to 1910. He died in 1919.