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Lawrence C. Phipps
United States Senator from Colorado
In office March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1931
Preceded by	John Franklin Shafroth
Succeeded by	Edward Prentiss Costigan
Personal details
Born	Lawrence Cowle Phipps (1862-08-30)August 30, 1862 Amity, Pennsylvania
Died	March 1, 1958(1958-03-01) (aged 95) Santa Monica, California
Political party	Republican
Spouses	1) Ibrealla Loomis, 2) Genevieve Chandler, 2) Margaret Rogers
Parent(s)	William Henry Phipps Agnes McCall

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

Biography

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Lawrence Cowle Phipps was born on August 30, 1862, in Amity, Pennsylvania, the son of William Henry Phipps and Agnes McCall. He 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 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." He did not run again in 1930.

Between 1931 and 1933, Phipps and his third wife, the former Margaret Rogers, built the Phipps Estate, in part to provide jobs during the Great Depression. Mrs. Phipps donated the mansion and grounds to the University of Denver in 1964. Two of his sons in Gerald and Allen went on to purchase and operate the Denver Broncos.

Phipps died on March 1, 1958, in Santa Monica, California. He was entombed in the Fairmount Mausoleum at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.

Legacy

Phipps is the namesake of Phippsburg, Colorado.

References

1. ^ "Lawrence Phipps, Ex-Senator, Dies. Colorado G.O.P. Leader, 95, Was Carnegie Executive Before U. S. Steel Merger". New York Times. March 3, 1958.
2. Campaign poster.
3. "University of Denver -- Lawrence C. Phipps Memorial Conference Center: History". Archived from the original on 2010-06-20. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
4. Dawson, John Frank (1954). Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 40.

Further reading

• 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.

External links

• Media related to Lawrence Cowle Phipps at Wikimedia Commons

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

v t e Chairs of the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
Education/Education and Labor (1869–1947)	Harlan Drake Sawyer Flanagan Ferry 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–present)	Jeffords Kennedy Jeffords Kennedy Gregg Enzi Kennedy Harkin Alexander Murray Sanders Cassidy

v t e Chairmen of the United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Post Office and Post Roads (1816–1947)	Wilson Stokes Lanman Johnson Bibb Grundy Robinson Henderson Merrick Niles Rusk Yulee Gwin Collamer Dixon Ramsey Hamlin Ferry Maxey Ferry Hill Conger Sawyer Vilas Wolcott Mason Penrose Bourne Bankhead Townsend Sterling Moses Phipps Oddie McKellar Chávez
Civil Service and Retrenchment (1873–1921)	Wright Clayton Blaine Teller Butler Hawley Chace Wolcott Call Jarvis Pritchard Baker Perkins Cummins Pomerene McKellar Sterling
Civil Service (1921–1947)	Sterling Stanfield Couzens Dale Bulow Downey
Post Office and Civil Service (1947–1977)	Langer Johnston Carlson Johnston Monroney McGee

• 1862 births
• 1958 deaths
• Colorado Republicans
• Phipps family
• Politicians from Denver
• Politicians from Pittsburgh
• Republican Party United States senators from Colorado
• Burials at Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colorado)
• 20th-century United States senators