Philip S. Markley

Philip Swenk Markley (July 2, 1789 – September 12, 1834) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1823 to 1827 and as Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1830.

[1] He was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as an Adams Party candidate to the Nineteenth Congress.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress.

He was appointed naval officer of Philadelphia by President Andrew Jackson and served from 1826 to 1829.

Interment in Saint John Episcopal Church Cemetery in Norristown, Pennsylvania.