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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. Johns
Cemetery, Lancaster, Mass.
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