John R. Phillips (American politician)
John Phillips was an American businessman and veteran of World War I who served seven terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California from 1943 to 1957.
Early life and career
John Phillips was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He moved to St. Davids, Pennsylvania, in 1891. He graduated from Haverford College in 1910.World War I
He served in the United States Army during World War I, where he served in the Adjutant General's Office and in Ordinance 1917–1919.He moved to California in 1924 and worked as a business analyst and rancher.
Political career
He was a member of the city council of Banning, California, 1930–1932. He served in the California Assembly from 1933 to 1937, and was a member of the California Senate from 1937 to 1942. He was a member of the United States delegation to the Eleventh World's Dairy Congress in Berlin in 1937.Congress
Phillips was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1956.He was a delegate to Republican National Conventions in 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960.