MERLE H. PHILLIPS

Sessions

Session Year	Position	District	Party
1979- 1980		108	Republican
1981- 1982		108	Republican
1983- 1984		108	Republican
1985- 1986		108	Republican
1987- 1988		108	Republican
1989- 1990		108	Republican
1991- 1992		108	Republican
1993- 1994		108	Republican
1995- 1996	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
1997- 1998	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
1999- 2000	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2001- 2002	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2003- 2004	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2005- 2006	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2007- 2008	Minority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2009- 2010	Minority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican

Counties	Montour, Northumberland, Snyder

Biography

09/21/1928 - 12/30/2013

PHILLIPS, Merle Herbert, a Representative from Montour, Northumberland and Snyder Counties; born in Dalmatia, Northumberland County, Pa., September 21, 1928; graduated, Lower Mahanoy Township High School, 1946; attended, Susquehanna University; served, United States Marine Corps; president, Irish Valley Food Processing, Inc.; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a Special Election, March 11, 1980 to serve the remaining 1979 term; Sworn-In, April 8, 1980 and reelected to 15 consecutive terms thereafter; elected, Majority Caucus Administrator (1995-2006); elected, Minority Caucus Administrator (2007-2010); not a candidate for reelection to the House (2010); elected, delegate, Republican National Convention (2004, 2008); appointed, commissioner, Northumberland County (2011-2012); died, December 30, 2013 in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Orchard Hills Cemetery, Shamokin Dam, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.