MERLE H. PHILLIPS

Sessions

Session	Position	District	Party
1980		108	Republican
1981		108	Republican
1982		108	Republican
1983		108	Republican
1984		108	Republican
1985		108	Republican
1986		108	Republican
1987		108	Republican
1988		108	Republican
1989		108	Republican
1990		108	Republican
1991		108	Republican
1992		108	Republican
1993		108	Republican
1994		108	Republican
1995	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
1996	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
1997	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
1998	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
1999	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2000	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2001	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2002	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2003	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2004	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2005	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2006	Majority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2007	Minority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2008	Minority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
2009	Minority Caucus Administrator	108	Republican
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 (1947-1951); served, United States Marine Corps Reserve (1951-1952); 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.