Phillips' engaged in mercantile pursuits in Salem, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1824 to 1829.

Phillips was elected as a National Republican to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rufus Choate.

He perished in the burning of the steamer Montreal on the St. Lawrence River on June 26, 1857, near Quebec City.

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