Philadelph Van Trump (15 November 1810 – 31 July 1874) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-OH 12) from 4 March 1867 to 3 March 1873, succeeding William E. Finck and preceding Hugh J. Jewett.
Biography[]
Philadelph Van Trump was born in Lancaster, Ohio in 1810, and he became a lawyer in Lancaster in 1838. He served as a delegate to the 1852 Whig National Convention, and he mounted a failed Know Nothing gubernatorial bid in 1856. He served as a common pleas judge from 1862 to 1867, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1867 to 1873. He died in 1874.