Philip Doddridge (1773–1832)
Doddridge and Bushrod Washington exchanged letters on legal matters.
Philip Doddridge was born on 17 May 1773 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. At seventeen he moved to what is now Brooke County, West Virginia, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. His thriving practice led to multiple terms in the Virginia legislature, where he supported universal white male suffrage, direct election of governors, and the interests of the western part of the state. Doddridge was also a delegate to the 1829–30 Virginia constitutional convention. Following two unsuccessful runs for a seat in the U.S.
"Philip Doddridge." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310014635/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=4e079b83. Accessed 5 Sept. 2023.
"Philip Doddridge to Thomas Jefferson, [17] January 1816," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0233. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 9, September 1815 to April 1816, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 363–365.]
"To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 10 March 1821," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-02-02-0227. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 1 February 1820 – 26 February 1823, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, pp. 273–276.]
Dan B. Fleming, "Philip Doddridge," The West Virginia Encyclopedia.
Philip Doddridge at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Philip Doddridge at Find a Grave.
Philip Doddridge at FamilySearch.