Philip DowningPhilip Downing was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.BiographyDowning was born on September 3, 1871, in Fenaghvale, Ontario, Canada and was a schoolteacher in Amberg, Wisconsin, for ten years and then became postmaster. He later moved to Madison, Wisconsin.CareerDowning was elected to the Senate in 1940 and was re-elected in 1944, 1948 and 1952. He was a Republican.