Thomas Wharton Phillips, Jr.

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Thomas Wharton Phillips, Jr. (November 21, 1874–January 2, 1956) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Thomas W. Phillips, Jr., (son of Thomas Wharton Phillips), was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania. 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 the Chi Phi Fraternity. He was engaged in the petroleum, natural gas, and coal businesses. He was a delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention.

Phillips was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses. He did not seek renomination for Congress in 1926. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1926, 1930, and 1934. After his time in Congress, he resumed his former occupation and was president of the Phillips Gas and Oil Co. He was also a director of the Butler Consolidated Coal Co., and the Pennsylvania Investment and Real Estate Corp., of Butler, Pennsylvania. He died at Phillips Hall in Penn Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. Interment in North Cemetery, Butler, Pennsylvania.

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• Thomas W. Phillips, Jr. at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by William H. Kirkpatrick

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district 1923 - 1927

Succeeded by J. Howard Swick