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Contribution:

  • Phillips wrote many articles attacking the US Senate and expressed them as being controlled by powerful industrialists
  • Helped form the main ideas for the 17th Amendment

David Graham Phillips

(October 31, 1867 - January 23, 1911)

Vocation:

Defining Moment

American novelist, journalist, & noted muckraker

Indiana Abury College

  • Helping to form the 17th Amendment

17th Amendment: an amendment to the U.S. Constitution providing for the election of 2 U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years

Background

Bibliography

http://hoffmanshistory.wikispaces.com/David+G.+Phillips

http://www.ask.com/question/17th-amendment-definition

http://www.online-literature.com/david-phillips/

  • Education:
  • Indiana Abury College and then College of New Jersey where he graduated in 1887
  • Religious training:
  • N/A
  • Relationship with Family:
  • Very close with his older sister Carolyn
  • Close relationship with his father, David Graham Phillips, Sr., and mother, Margaret Lee
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