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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsPhilip Joseph PHILBIN
(1898-1972)
PHILBIN, Philip Joseph, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Clinton, Worcester
County, Mass., May 29, 1898; attended the public and high schools;
during the First World War served as a seaman in the United States
Navy 1917-1919; was graduated from Harvard University in 1920 and
from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1924; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Boston,
Mass., and later in Clinton, Mass.; also engaged in the realty and
fuel businesses and in agricultural pursuits; secretary, campaign
manager, and personal representative at intervals for Senator David
I. Walsh 1921-1940; special counsel for the United States Senate
Committee on Education and Labor 1934-1936; referee in the United
States Department of Labor in 1936 and 1937; member of the advisory
board of the Massachusetts Unemployment Compensation Commission
1937-1940; in 1935 became chairman of the town of Clinton Finance
Committee; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the
thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1971);
chairman, Committee on Armed Services (Ninety-first Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1970 to the
Ninety-second Congress; died at his home, Philcrest Farms, Bolton,
Mass., June 14, 1972; interment in St. John’s Cemetery,
Lancaster, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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