# Lazarus Phillips

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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1895–1986)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = The Hon.
| name             = Lazarus Phillips
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| term_start       = 1968
| term_end         = 1970
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1895|10|10}}
| birth_place      = [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec), Canada
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1986|12|30|1895|10|10}}
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| profession       = 
| party            = [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Canada)
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| office           = [Senator](/source/Senate_of_Canada) for [Rigaud senate division](/source/List_of_Quebec_senators)
| predecessor      = [Vincent Dupuis](/source/Vincent_Dupuis)
| successor        = [Carl Goldenberg](/source/Carl_Goldenberg)
| appointer        = [Lester B. Pearson](/source/Lester_B._Pearson)
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}}
'''Lazarus Phillips''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OBE|QC}} (October 10, 1895 – December 30, 1986) was a Canadian lawyer and [Senator](/source/Senate_of_Canada).

Born in [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec), he served with the [Canadian Expeditionary Force](/source/Canadian_Expeditionary_Force) in [Siberia](/source/Siberia) during [World War I](/source/World_War_I). In 1918, he received a [Bachelor of Civil Law](/source/Bachelor_of_Civil_Law) from [McGill University](/source/McGill_University) and was called to the [Quebec Bar](/source/Barreau_du_Quebec) in 1920. A practicing lawyer, he was a senior partner of the Montreal law firm, Phillips and Vineberg (now [Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg](/source/Davies_Ward_Phillips_%26_Vineberg)).

A member of the [Liberal Party of Canada](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Canada), he ran unsuccessfully for the [House of Commons of Canada](/source/House_of_Commons_of_Canada) in the riding of [Cartier](/source/Cartier_(electoral_district)) in the [1943 by-election](/source/1943_Cartier_federal_by-election), losing to Communist Party member [Fred Rose](/source/Fred_Rose_(politician)) (he also garnered more votes than future NDP leader, [David Lewis](/source/David_Lewis_(Canadian_politician))). He was called to the senate in 1968 representing the senatorial division of Rigaud, Quebec. He retired in 1970.

A prominent member of the Montreal Jewish community, he was president of the school, [United Talmud Torahs of Montreal](/source/United_Talmud_Torahs_of_Montreal). He was a director and vice-president of the [Royal Bank of Canada](/source/Royal_Bank_of_Canada).

The Senator Lazarus Phillips Chair in General History in the Faculty of Jewish Studies at [Bar-Ilan University](/source/Bar-Ilan_University) is named in his honour.<ref>[https://www.biu.ac.il/General/chairs.html]</ref>

==References==
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* [https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=103534&lang=eng Lazarus Phillips fonds], [Library and Archives Canada](/source/Library_and_Archives_Canada).

==External links==
*{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=8628}}
* [https://data2.archives.ca/cef/gpc014/577742a.gif World War I personnel file]

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Category:Lawyers from Montreal
Category:Canadian senators from Quebec
Category:Canadian military personnel of World War I
Category:Jewish Canadian politicians
Category:Liberal Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
Category:Liberal Party of Canada senators
Category:McGill University Faculty of Law alumni
Category:Military personnel from Montreal
Category:Politicians from Montreal
Category:Canadian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Quebec candidates for Member of Parliament
Category:20th-century members of the Senate of Canada

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