# Phillip Markey

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**Phillip Markey** (August 1, 1913 – January 7, 2003)[1] was an American [lawyer](/source/Lawyer) who served one term as a [Progressive](/source/Wisconsin_Progressive_Party) member of the [Wisconsin State Assembly](/source/Wisconsin_State_Assembly).[2] He was from [Milwaukee](/source/Milwaukee), [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin).

## Background

Markey was born in Milwaukee on August 1, 1913. He attended the Fourth Street School, the Ninth Street School, [Lincoln High School](/source/Lincoln_High_School_(Milwaukee)), [Milwaukee State Teachers College](/source/Milwaukee_State_Teachers_College), and [Marquette University](/source/Marquette_University). He received his LL.B. degree from the [University of Wisconsin Law School](/source/University_of_Wisconsin_Law_School) and was admitted to the bar in 1940. He worked for the Smith Steel Company and the Sivyer Steel Company.

## Legislature

In 1942, Markey was narrowly declared victor in a five-way race, after a [recount](/source/Recount),[3] winning election as a Progressive to succeed [Socialist](/source/Socialist_Party_of_America) [Ben Rubin](/source/Ben_Rubin_(legislator)) in [Milwaukee County](/source/Milwaukee_County,_Wisconsin)'s Sixth Assembly district (the Sixth [Ward](/source/Wards_of_the_United_States) of the City of Milwaukee). A voting recount happened because African American [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)), [Cleveland Moland Colbert](/source/Cleveland_Colbert) was initially declared the winner, but after the recount Markey was only 10 votes higher.[4] Markey had polled 1458 votes, to 1448 for Republican Cleveland Colbert; 917 for [Democrat](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) Charles Bennett; 652 for [Independent](/source/Independent_(politics)) [Progressive](/source/Progressivism) Joseph Alberti; and 109 for Socialist Robert Repas. He was assigned to the [standing committee](/source/Standing_committee) on [printing](/source/Printing).[5]

Markey ran for re-election in 1944 as a [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)), and was defeated in a three-way race by African American [Democrat](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) [Le Roy Simmons](/source/Le_Roy_Simmons), although he did finish ahead of the Progressive candidate.[6] He ran again in the 1946 Republican [primary election](/source/Partisan_primary) for the chance to face Simmons (by this time Wisconsin's Progressives had merged back into the Republican Party), but was unsuccessful, coming in second in a five-way race.[7]

## After the legislature

After leaving the Assembly, Markey went back to the practice of law in Milwaukee, where he had been practicing since 1939. In 1951, the [Supreme Court of Wisconsin](/source/Supreme_Court_of_Wisconsin) ruled that he and his brother Maurice (also a lawyer) had been guilty of unprofessional conduct. Four counts are contained in the complaint. They are that the defendants were guilty of unprofessional conduct in that they conspired and acted together:

1. To secure advantages to themselves to the prejudice of the interests of their clients;
1. To injure their clients' interests by threatening to withdraw, and withdrawing from, the defense of [litigation](/source/Litigation), at the time set for the trial thereof, with the intent and purpose of forcing their clients to execute agreements to the advantage and benefit of the defendants;
1. To use for their own benefit and the benefit of others and against the interests of their former clients, information acquired from their clients in the course of their employment as attorneys;
1. To attempt to injure their former clients, after withdrawing as attorneys from a case set for trial, by disclosing to the attorney for the adverse party that they had information acquired by them as attorneys which could be made available to the adverse party upon the trial of such cause and which would assist in establishing the cause of the adverse party.[8]

While they were not disbarred, they were reprimanded, and their licenses to practice were suspended until they paid the costs of the proceeding against them, which, the Court noted, "it appears will involve a considerable sum".[9]

## References

1. 'Social Security Death Index

1. 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1942,' Biographical Sketch of Philip Markey, pg. 56

1. [Associated Press](/source/Associated_Press). "Study Two Claims For Assembly Seat" *[Milwaukee Journal](/source/Milwaukee_Journal)*, February 11, 1943; p. 16, col. 2

1. ["Fight Over Assembly Seat"](https://www.newspapers.com/image/518635589/). *Newspapers.com*. [The Capital Times](/source/The_Capital_Times). January 14, 1943. p. 10. [ISSN 0749-4068](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0749-4068). Retrieved 2022-09-14.

1. [Ohm, Howard F.; Kuehn, Hazel L., eds. *The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1944* Madison: State of Wisconsin, 1944; pp. 56, 178, 517, 583](http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1944)

1. [Ohm, Howard F.; Kuehn, Hazel L., eds. *The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1946* Madison: State of Wisconsin, 1946; p. 676](http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1946)

1. [Ohm, Howard F.; Kuehn, Hazel L., eds. *The Wisconsin Blue Book, 1948* Madison: State of Wisconsin, 1948; p. 613](http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1948)

1. ["State v. Markey, 259 Wis. 527 | Casetext Search + Citator"](https://web.archive.org/web/20221031001541/https://casetext.com/case/state-v-markey-1). *casetext.com*. Archived from [the original](https://casetext.com/case/state-v-markey-1/) on October 31, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-30.

1. [STATE v. MARKEY *259 Wis. 527 (1951)* heard; September 14, 1951; ruling October 9, 1951](http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?page=6&xmldoc=1951786259Wis527_1699.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985&SizeDisp=7)

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