| 词条 | Wendell H. Phillips |
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| name = Wendell Harrison Phillips | image = Wendell h. phillips.JPG | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1934|11|19}} | birth_place =Brooklyn, New York | residence = Baltimore, Maryland | death_date = {{death date and age|1993|1|29|1934|11|19}} | death_place = Baltimore, Maryland | office = Delegate 41st District | term_start = January 10, 1979 | term_end = January 10, 1987 | predecessor = | successor = | constituency = Baltimore City Member of the House of Delegates | party = Democrat | religion = Christian | occupation = Pastor | majority = | relations = | spouse = Dorothy Allen Phillips | children = Wendell Fitzgerald Phillips | footnotes = | order2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | president = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | order3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = }} Wendell Harrison Phillips (November 19, 1934 – January 29, 1993) was an American politician who served in the Maryland House of Delegates and was the first African American chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation. Phillips was one of three delegates serving the 41st legislative district, which lies in the central, northwest section of Baltimore City. BackgroundDelegate Phillips was born in Brooklyn, New York. His family moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at an early age. He was baptized at the Carrone Baptist church and attended Westinghouse High School, both in Pittsburgh.[1] He earned a B.S. from Virginia Union University, attended Penn State University and received his M.Div. from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, University of Rochester. He was an ordained clergyman and founding pastor of the Heritage United Church of Christ in Baltimore, Maryland from 1964 to 1993.[2] Phillips served on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Advisory Board from 1968 to 1970. He was the President, Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance in Baltimore and a delegate to the First Conference of Christians, Israelis, and Palestinians in 1976. Phillips is a past president of the NAACP of Rochester, New York and active in the Civil Rights movement.[3] FamilyPhillips married the former Dorothy Allen of Rochester, New York on June 11, 1960, the couple had one son, Wendell Fitzgerald Phillips who also served in the Maryland General Assembly. In the LegislaturePhillips was a member of the House of Delegates from 1979 to 1987 and a member of its Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee.He was also a member of the Joint Committee On Legislative Ethics. Although he was the chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation, the motorcycle-riding Phillips initially had a stormy relationship with then Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer. As delegation chairman, Phillips was responsible for "pushing" the legislation in Annapolis that Schaefer thought was important for Baltimore. Phillips, the consummate bridge builder, knew that for Baltimore City to truly benefit from effective leadership, he and Schaefer had to find a way to work together for the betterment of Baltimore's entire citizenry.[4] Notes1. ^{{cite journal|last=Obituary|date=1993-02-03|title=Homegoing Celebration of Wendell Harrison Phillips|publisher=Heritage United Church of Christ}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Phillips, Wendell H.}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://heritageucc.org/|title=HUCC Pastors: past and present|publisher=Heritage United Church of Christ|accessdate=2008-05-22}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000180/html/am180--89.html|title=Maryland Manual, 1981-82|publisher=Archives of Maryland |accessdate=2008-05-18}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=Del. Wendell Phillips: Preaching and Politics|last=Baker|first=Donald P.|year=1987|publisher=the Baltimore Sun}} 10 : 1934 births|1993 deaths|Members of the Maryland House of Delegates|African-American state legislators in Maryland|American Christian clergy|Politicians from Baltimore|Virginia Union University alumni|Pennsylvania State University alumni|University of Rochester alumni|20th-century American politicians |
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