Dayton E. Phillips

Dayton Edward Phillips (born March 29, 1910 in Shell Creek , Carter County , Tennessee , †  October 23, 1980 in Kingsport , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1951 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Dayton Phillips grew up on a farm and attended public schools in his home country as well as Cloudland High School in Roan Mountain . Between 1929 and 1931 he graduated from Milligan College near Elizabethton . He then studied until 1934 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville . In the meantime he also worked as a teacher in 1931 and 1932. After studying law at the National University in Washington, DC and being admitted to the bar in 1936, he began working in his new profession in Elizabethton. Between 1938 and 1942, Phillips was a district attorney in Carter County. During the Second World War between 1943 and 1945 he was deployed as a soldier in the US Army in the European theater of war. Until 1947, he served as the district attorney in the Tennessee First Judicial District.

Politically, Phillips was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1946 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of Tennessee, where he succeeded B. Carroll Reece on January 3, 1947 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1951 . These were shaped by the events of the Cold War .

In 1950 he was defeated by his predecessor Reece in his party's primary elections. After leaving the US House of Representatives, Dayton Phillips returned to work as a lawyer. From 1952 until his death on 23 October 1980, he served as Chancellor of the Chancery Court of Tennessee.

Web links

• Dayton E. Phillips in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Dayton E. Phillips in the database of Find a Grave (English)