HON. PHILIP W. MCKINNEY
Was born in Buckingham county, Va., on March 17, 1832. His
parents were Virginians, Charles McKinney, born in Charlotte county,
died in August, 1862, and Martha Guarrant, also now deceased. On
May 12, 1856, he married Nannie Christian, who died, leaving him one
son, Robert C. He married secondly, at Farmville, Virginia, December
23, 1884, Annie Lyle, and they have one child, Frankie Irving. The
early school days of Mr. McKinney were passed in Buckingham county,
followed by the course at Hampden-Sidney college, whence he was graduated
with honors. He pursued his law studies at Washington and
Lee University, and then entered on the practice of law in Prince
Edward and adjoining counties.
In April, 1861, he entered the Confederate States Army, captain of
Company K, 4th Virginia Cavalry, and was with that regiment in all
its gallant service until incapacitated for the field by wound received in
1863 at Brandy Station. After that he performed local duty at Danville
for a year. In 1864 he was relieved from military duty by Col.
George C. Cabell, and took his seat as a member of the General Assembly
of Virginia, to which position he had been elected from Buckingham
county in 1858, and where he served till the close of the war.
Since that time he has been one of the most eminent members of the
Bar in Virginia, with his home at Farmville, his practice mainly in
Prince Edward county. He has filled the office of prosecuting attorney
several terms, has been three times Presidential elector on the Democratic
ticket for the Fourth District, was elector at large in 1884; in
1881 was the Democratic nominee for attorney-general, and in 1885
was a candidate for nomination for Governor of Virginia, receiving,
among the several candidates, the next highest vote to that by which
Governor Lee was nominated.
