Thomas Wharton Phillips

Thomas Wharton Phillips ( born February 23, 1835 in Mount Jackson, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, † July 21, 1912 in New Castle, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in what is now Lawrence County Thomas Phillips attended the public schools of his home. At times, he has also taught privately. Later he worked in the oil business. Between 1887 and 1890 he was president of the Producers' Protective Association. He has been renowned in the banking industry and was president of the Citizens ' National Bank of New Castle. Phillips was also a board member at Bethany College in West Virginia and at Hiram College in Ohio.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was in the 25th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Eugene Pierce Gillespie on March 4, 1893. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 two legislative sessions. Since 1895, he headed the Committee on Labour. In 1896 he gave up another candidacy.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Phillips took his previous activities on again. He was appointed by President William McKinley in the United States Industrial Commission, in which he remained until its dissolution in 1902. In June 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate. Thomas Phillips died on 21 July 1912 in New Castle, where he was also buried. His son Thomas (1874-1956) was also a congressman.