Philip D. Beall Jr.

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{One source|date=August 2023}}

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|name =Philip D. Beall Jr.

|image =PDBeallJr.jpg

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|office=Member of the Florida Senate

|term=1947–1962

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|birth_name=Philip Dane Beall Jr.

|birth_date = {{birth date|1915|6|15}}

|birth_place =Pensacola, Florida, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1988|4|12|1915|6|15}}

|death_place =Gulf Breeze, Florida, U.S.

|party =Democratic

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|spouse =Mary Ella Rivale

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|residence=Pensacola, Florida
Gulf Breeze, Florida

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Philip Dane Beall Jr. (June 15, 1915 – April 12, 1988) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He served in the Florida State Senate from 1947 to 1962 as a Democratic member for the 2nd district. He succeeded his father, Philip D. Beall Sr. in the State Senate after his death in 1947.{{cite web|url=http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/fefdl/florida/Senate18452001.html|title=Florida Senators|publisher=uflib.ufl.edu|accessdate=September 21, 2014}} He was a member of the Pork Chop Gang, a group of legislators from rural areas that dominated the state legislature due to malapportionment and used their power to engage in McCarthyist tactics.{{citation |title=Group portrait of the Pork Chop Gang during the 1956 special session of the Senate |date=1956 |url=https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/35657 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715231808/https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/35657 |archive-date=July 15, 2015 |url-status=live |publisher=Florida Memory |accessdate=July 14, 2015}}{{Cite journal |last=Weitz |first=Seth |date=2009-03-01 |title=Defending the Old South: The Myth of the Lost Cause and Political Immorality in Florida, 1865–1968 |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00232.x |journal=The Historian |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=79–92 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00232.x |issn=0018-2370}}