Thomas W. Phillips Jr.

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),{{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}} 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.{{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}}

Through his father, he was a descendant of a pastor who founded the Congregational Church in New England in the 18th century.

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.

He was engaged in the petroleum, natural gas, and coal businesses, taking over his father's business in 1912. He was a delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention.

Phillips was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses, and did not seek renomination for Congress in 1926. While in Congress, he was a bitter opponent of Prohibition.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1926, 1930, and 1934.

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. He was also a director of the Butler Consolidated Coal Co., and the Pennsylvania Investment and Real Estate Corp., of Butler, Pennsylvania.{{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}}

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:

• Janet Sherman Phillips (b. 1909), who married Leander McCormick-Goodhart (1884–1965), son of Frederick E. McCormick-Goodhart and grandson of Leander J. McCormick,{{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}} in 1928.{{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}}{{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}}
• Katherine Phillips (b. 1910), who married Lucien Gerard van Hoorn, the Dutch chargé d'affaires to Austria and Hungary, in 1932.{{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}} She later married British doctor Frederick L. Rutgers in 1942.{{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}}{{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}}
• Alma Phillips (1913–1913), who died in infancy.
• Margaret Sherman Phillips (1914–1990), who married Augustus Craig Succop in 1934.{{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}}
• Thomas Wharton Phillips III (b. {{Circa|1915}}).{{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}}
• Roger Sherman Phillips (1922–1969), who married Virginia Dickson (1922–2011) in 1943.{{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}} He later married Jeannie Kay DeKlyn (1938–2008), a daughter of Dr. Ward Benedict DeKlyn.{{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}}

After the death of his first wife in 1945, he remarried the following year to Greta W. Schoenwald.{{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}} Greta, a mezzo-soprano soloist,{{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}} was a faculty member at Bethany College in West Virginia from 1955 to 1958.{{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}}

He died at his mansion, Phillips Hall, on Butler Plank Road in Penn Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania on January 2, 1956. After a funeral at the North Street Church of Christ, where he was a member, he was buried in North Cemetery in Butler, Pennsylvania.{{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}}

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