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| name = <br />
| image = ThomasWhartonPhillipsJr.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| state = Pennsylvania<br />
| district = [[Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district|26th]]<br />
| term_start = 1923<br />
| term_end = 1927<br />
| predecessor = [[William H. Kirkpatrick]]<br />
| successor = [[J. Howard Swick]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1874|11|21}}<br />
| birth_place = [[New Castle, Pennsylvania]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1956|01|02|1874|11|21}}<br />
| death_place = [[Penn Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania|Penn Township, Pennsylvania]]<br />
| education = [[Phillips Academy]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Yale University]]<br />
| parents = [[Thomas Wharton Phillips]]<br />
| spouse = {{plainlist|<br />
*{{marriage|Alma Janet Sherman||1945|reason=died}}<br />
*{{marriage|Greta W. Schoenwald|1946}}<br />
}}<br />
| children = 6<br />
| relations = <br />
}}<br />
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'''Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr.''' (November 21, 1874 – January 2, 1956) was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Pennsylvania]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Phillips was born in [[New Castle, Pennsylvania]] on November 21, 1874. He was the son of Pamphila ([[née]] Hardman) Phillips (1844–1933) and [[Thomas Wharton Phillips]] (1835–1912),<ref name="Phillips">{{cite book |last1=Phillips |first1=Alexander Van Cleve |title=The Lott family in America, including the allied families: Cassell, Davis, Graybeal, Haring, Hegeman, Hogg, Kerley, Phillips, Thompson, Walter and others |date=1942 |publisher=Edwards Brothers |page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBU3AAAAMAAJ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref> who also served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and later, was appointed a member of the [[United States Industrial Commission]] by President [[William McKinley]].<ref name="TWPbioguide">{{cite web |title=PHILLIPS, Thomas Wharton - Biographical Information |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000313 |website=bioguide.congress.gov |publisher=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |accessdate=11 May 2019}}</ref><br />
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Through his father, he was a descendant of Reverend George Phillips who founded the [[Congregational church|Congregational Church]] in New England in the 18th century.<ref name="PPObit1956"/><br />
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He graduated from [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]], in 1894 and from the [[Sheffield Scientific School]] at [[Yale University]] in 1897, where he was a member of [[Chi Phi]] fraternity.<ref name="TWPJrbioguide"/><br />
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==Career==<br />
He was engaged in the [[petroleum]], [[natural gas]], and [[coal]] businesses, taking over his father's business in 1912.<ref name="PPObit1956"/> He was a delegate to the [[1916 Republican National Convention]].<ref name="TWPJrbioguide"/><br />
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Phillips was elected as a Republican to the [[68th United States Congress|Sixty-eighth]] and [[69th United States Congress|Sixty-ninth]] Congresses, and did not seek renomination for Congress in [[United States House election, 1926|1926]]. While in Congress, he was a bitter opponent of [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]].<br />
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He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for [[List of Governors of Pennsylvania|Governor]] in 1926, 1930, and 1934.<br />
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===Post Congress===<br />
After his service in Congress, he resumed his former occupation and was president of the [[Phillips Gas and Oil Co.]], serving for forty-four years.<ref name="1956Funeral"/> He was also a director of the Butler Consolidated Coal Co., and the Pennsylvania Investment and Real Estate Corp., of [[Butler, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="TWPJrbioguide">{{cite web |title=PHILLIPS, Thomas Wharton, Jr. - Biographical Information |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000314 |website=bioguide.congress.gov |publisher=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Phillips was married to Alma Janet Sherman (1882–1945). Alma was the daughter of Roger Sherman, a noted lawyer in [[Western Pennsylvania]], and Alma Caroline (née Seymour) Sherman. Together, they were the parents of six children, five of whom lived to maturity:<br />
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* Janet Sherman Phillips (b. 1909), who married Leander McCormick-Goodhart (1884–1965), son of [[Frederick E. McCormick-Goodhart]] and grandson of [[Leander J. McCormick]],<ref name="LMGObit1965">{{cite news |title=L. GOODHART, McCORMICK KIN, DIES AT 81 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18571293/chicago_tribune/ |accessdate=6 May 2019 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=17 Dec 1965 |page=45 |language=en}}</ref> in 1928.<ref name="1928Engagement">{{cite news |title=MISS HELEN NEILSON TO WED T.B. RUDD; Member of Junior League, a Settlement Worker, Is toMarry Lawyer.MISS M. STURGES ENGAGEDSmith College Graduate Is to MarryTruxton Homans Parsons-- Other Betrothals. Sturges--Parsons. Weston--Weston. Jesser--Billingham. Woodhull--Sayward. Mulford--Throop. Butterick--Rogers. Phillips--McCormick-Goodhart. Edwards--Alliger. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/03/11/94127310.pdf |accessdate=6 May 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 March 1928}}</ref><ref name="1928Wedding">{{cite news |title=MISS JANET PHILLIPS IS WED IN WASHINGTON; Becomes the Bride of Leander McCormick-Goodhart--British Ambassador and Staff Attend. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/04/29/118337314.pdf |accessdate=6 May 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 April 1928}}</ref><br />
* Katherine Phillips (b. 1910), who married Lucien Gerard van Hoorn, the [[List of diplomatic missions of the Netherlands|Dutch]] [[chargé d'affaires]] to Austria and Hungary, in 1932.<ref name="1932Wedding">{{cite news |title=Phillips Family Come for Wedding |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31462377/phillips_family_come_for_wedding/ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |date=7 Nov 1932 |language=en}}</ref> She later married British doctor Frederick L. Rutgers in 1942.<ref name="1942Wedding">{{cite news |title=International Import Attached To Nuptials -- Daughter of Butler Family Becomes Bride of London Doctor in New York; Mother Attends Ceremony |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31462590/katherine_phillips_wedding_1942/ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |date=3 Feb 1942 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Lee1968">{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Cuthbert |title=Portrait Register |date=1968 |publisher=Biltmore Press |page=350 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=alAg8ToaRqEC |accessdate=11 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref><br />
* Alma Phillips (1913–1913), who died in infancy.<br />
* Margaret Sherman Phillips (1914–1990), who married Augustus Craig Succop in 1934.<ref name="1934WEDDING">{{cite news |title=Girl of Colonial Ancestry Becomes Bride In Ceremony at Phillips' Hall Near Butler -- Nuptial Service Takes Place in Living Room Of Home |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31462137/margaret_phillips_wedding_1934/ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |date=6 May 1934 |language=en}}</ref><br />
* Thomas Wharton Phillips III (b. {{Circa|1915}}).<ref name="Women1936">{{cite book |title=Principal Women of America |date=1936 |publisher=Mitre Press |page=428 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHAdAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref><br />
* Roger Sherman Phillips (1922–1969), who married Virginia Dickson (1922–2011) in 1943.<ref name="1943Wedding">{{cite news |title=Virginia Dickson Is Engaged to Marry Roger S. Phillips. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31463047/virigina_dickson_is_engaged_to_mary/ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |date=29 Jan 1943 |language=en}}</ref> He later married Jeannie Kay DeKlyn (1938–2008), a daughter of Dr. Ward Benedict DeKlyn.<ref name="1969Services">{{cite news |title=ROGER S. PHILLIPS SERVICES TOMORROW |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31463154/roger_s_phillips_services_tomorrow/ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |work=[[The Bridgeport Post]] |date=14 Feb 1969 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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After the death of his first wife in 1945, he remarried the following year to Greta W. Schoenwald.<ref name="PPObit1956">{{cite news |title=Oil Leader, Ex-Lawmaker -- Funeral Tomorrow for T. W. Phillips |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31461898/oil_leader_exlawmaker_funeral/ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |date=3 Jan 1956 |language=en}}</ref> Greta, a [[mezzo-soprano]] soloist,<ref name="Music1954">{{cite book |title=Music Clubs Magazine |date=1954 |publisher=National Federation of Music Clubs. |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xN_jAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref> was a faculty member at [[Bethany College (West Virginia)|Bethany College]] in [[West Virginia]] from 1955 to 1958.<ref name="Bethany2014">{{cite book |title=Bethany College: A Liberal Arts Odyssey |date=2014 |publisher=Chalice Press |isbn=9780827202962 |page=356 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vhcIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA356 |accessdate=11 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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He died at his mansion, Phillips Hall, on Butler Plank Road in [[Penn Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania|Penn Township]], [[Butler County, Pennsylvania]] on January 2, 1956.<ref name="TWPJrbioguide"/> After a funeral at the North Street Church of Christ, where he was a member, he was buried in North Cemetery in [[Butler, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="1956Funeral">{{cite news |title=Phillips Rites Today In Butler -- Oil-Gas Tycoon Was Bitter Foe Of Prohibition |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31461685/phillips_rites_today_in_butler/ |accessdate=11 May 2019 |work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |date=4 Jan 1956 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{CongBio|P000314|Thomas W. Phillips, Jr.}}<br />
* {{find a Grave| 7178902}}<br />
*[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillips.html The Political Graveyard]<br />
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