Lawrence C. Phipps

Lawrence Cowle Phipps


United States Senator from Colorado
In office March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1931
Preceded by	John F. Shafroth
Succeeded by	Edward P. Costigan
Personal details
Born	(1862-08-30)August 30, 1862 Amityville, Pennsylvania
Died	March 1, 1958(1958-03-01) (aged 95) Santa Monica, California
Political party	Republican

Lawrence Cowle Phipps (August 30, 1862 – March 1, 1958) was a United States Senator representing Colorado from 1919 until 1931.

Phipps was born in Amityville, Pennsylvania but grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he joined the Carnegie Steel Company as a clerk. His uncle, Henry Phipps, was the second largest shareholder in the company. Lawrence Phipps eventually advanced to first vice president. He retired in 1901 and moved to Denver, Colorado, where he was active in investments, and was president of the Colorado Taxpayers's Protective League in 1917.

In 1918, Phipps was elected to the United States Senate as a member of the Republican Party, defeating the Democratic incumbent, John Franklin Shafroth. Phipps was reelected in 1924 on the memorable slogan, "A vote for Lawrence C. Phipps is another vote for Coolidge."^[1] He did not run again in 1930.

Phipps Estate

Between 1931 and 1933 Senator Phipps and his third wife, the former Margaret Rogers, built the Phipps Estate, in part to provide jobs during the Great Depression.^[2] Mrs. Phipps donated the mansion and grounds to the University of Denver in 1964.

Lawrence Phipps died in 1958 and was entombed in the Fairmount Mausoleum at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.

References

↑ Campaign poster.
↑ http://www.du.edu/phipps/history.html

Official Congressional Biography, which credits both the U.S. Senate Historical Office and the biography below:

Dictionary of American Biography; Schlup, Leonard. "Colorado Crusader and Western Conservative: Lawrence C. Phipps and the Congressional Campaign of 1926." Essays in Colorado History 9 (1989): 25-36.

"Lawrence C. Phipps". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2010-10-26.

United States Senate
Preceded by John Shafroth	U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Colorado March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1931 Served alongside: Charles S. Thomas, Samuel D. Nicholson, Alva B. Adams, Rice W. Means, Charles W. Waterman	Succeeded by Edward Costigan
Honorary titles
Preceded by Joseph Ransdell	Oldest living U.S. Senator July 27, 1954 – March 1, 1958	Succeeded by Joseph Grundy

United States Senators from Colorado

Class 2	Teller Chilcott Tabor Bowen Wolcott Patterson Guggenheim Shafroth Phipps Costigan Johnson Allott Haskell Armstrong Brown Allard Udall Gardner

Class 3	Chaffee Hill Teller Hughes Thomas Nicholson Adams Means Waterman Walker Schuyler Adams Millikin Carroll Dominick Hart Wirth Campbell Salazar Bennet

Chairmen of the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Education/Education and Labor (1869–1947)	Drake Sawyer Flanagan Patterson Burnside Bailey Blair Carey Kyle Shoup Kyle McComas Penrose Dolliver Borah H. Smith Kenyon Borah Phipps Couzens Metcalf Walsh Black Thomas Murray

Labor and Public Welfare (1947–1977)	Taft Thomas Murray A. Smith Hill Yarborough Williams

Labor and Human Resources (1977–1999)	Williams Hatch Kennedy Kassebaum Jeffords

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (1999–)	Jeffords Kennedy Jeffords Kennedy Gregg Enzi Kennedy Harkin Alexander

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 71151607 LCCN: no2006093069 US Congress: P000317

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Lawrence C. Phipps

Phipps Estate

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