Stephen Henry Phillips (August 16, 1823 – April 9, 1897) was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of Massachusetts and the Kingdom of Hawaii[1] and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and on King Kamehameha V's Privy Council.

[4] A fellow student at Harvard was William Little Lee (1821–1857) who had helped draft the 1852 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii and served as chief justice of the supreme court until his early death.

[6] Phillips temporarily acted as minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet from July 18, 1868, to December 31, 1869, while Charles de Varigny was in France trying to negotiate a treaty.

[4] After the death of Kamehameha V, the new king Lunalilo chose a new council and cabinet, and in January 1873 Phillips resigned his posts and moved to San Francisco.

[8] In San Francisco he practiced law for the Equitable Life Insurance company and the California state board of railroad commissioners.