Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr.

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

Early life 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), 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.

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

Personal life 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, in 1928. Katherine Phillips (b. 1910), who married Lucien Gerard van Hoorn, the Dutch chargé d'affaires to Austria and Hungary, in 1932. She later married British doctor Frederick L. Rutgers in 1942. Alma Phillips (1913–1913), who died in infancy. Margaret Sherman Phillips (1914–1990), who married Augustus Craig Succop in 1934. Thomas Wharton Phillips III (b. ). Roger Sherman Phillips (1922–1969), who married Virginia Dickson (1922–2011) in 1943. He later married Jeannie Kay DeKlyn (1938–2008), a daughter of Dr. Ward Benedict DeKlyn.

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

He died at his mansion, Phillips Hall, on Butler Plank Road in Penn Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania on January 2, 1956.