Thomas Wharton Phillips, Jr.

Thomas Wharton Phillips, Jr. ( born November 21, 1874 in New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania; † 2 January 1956 in Penn, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1927 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Phillips was the son of the Congressman Thomas Wharton Phillips Sr. ( 1835-1912 ). He attended the common schools and then to 1894 the Phillips Academy in Andover (Massachusetts ). Then he studied until 1897 at the members of the Yale University Sheffield Scientific School. In the following years he worked in the oil, gas and Kohelindustrie. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In June 1916 he took part in Chicago as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.

In the congressional elections of 1922, Phillips was in the 26th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Huntington Kirkpatrick on March 4, 1923. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1927 two legislative sessions. In 1926 he gave up another candidacy.

In the years 1926, 1930 and 1934, Phillips sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections in Pennsylvania. Otherwise, he continued his previous activities. He became president of the Phillips Gas and Oil Co. and director of the Company Butler Consolidated Coal Co. and Pennsylvania Investment and Real Estate Corp.. Thomas Phillips died on 2 January 1956 in Penn.