Philip Grymes
American lawyer (d. 1818)
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Philip Grymes (c. 1777 – July 21, 1818) was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of Louisiana for two years, from 1808 to 1810.[1] He was viewed as soft on the Batrarian pirates led by Jean Lafitte and Pierre Lafitte.[2] During his service as attorney he ordered seizure and sale of the land that in 1815 came to be known as the Chalmette battlefield, as the site of the Battle of New Orleans.[3] In 1810 Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter of recommendation to him regarding a neighbor's kid, John H. Carr.[4] He resigned his post on March 18, 1810.[4] On September 25, 1810, Grymes dueled lawyer Stephen A. Hopkins at Manchac, West Florida and took a bullet through the chest.[5] They thought he would die, but he lived.[6]
His brother John R. Grymes was also a Louisiana lawyer.[7] Grymes eventually returned to his home state of Virginia where he died in 1818.[4][8]
