Philip Marshall was born in Milwaukee in 1906 and spent most of his life in that city. He actively involved himself in politics as a non-candidate from the time when he joined the Socialist Party at the age of fourteen. He maintained his Socialist Party membership until 1939 when he resigned because of the soft line the Socialists were taking on Hitler. In the 1940s, along with several other disaffected liberals, he helped launch the Democratic Organizing Committee (DOC) which became the vehicle for liberalizing and revitalizing the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
Mr. Marshall was an attorney who specialized in labor mediation and arbitration procedures. He also served as the Law Librarian for the University of Wisconsin for a short time and worked for the Chicago Region of the War Labor Board during World War II. Mr. Marshall passed away on January 19, 1978.
