Wisconsin Governor. Born in Honey Creek, Sauk County, Wisconsin Emanuel Lorenz Philipp began his career as a country school teacher and later became a telegraph operator for the Northwestern Railway Company in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Philipp used his position at Northwestern to learn all aspects of railroad management, an education which served him throughout his life. In the 1880s he accepted an executive position with the Gould System Lines and later joined the management at Schlitz Brewing Company. In 1903 he founded the Union Refrigerator Transit Company of Wisconsin, and built the U.R.T. into one of the most successful refrigerated transport lines in the country. Philipp also owned large lumber holdings in the South, and the town of Philipp, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi was named in his honor. At the beginning of the twentieth century Wisconsin voters were demanding a number of political and workplace reforms. Although Philipp considered himself to be a conservative, he created a coalition within the Wisconsin Republican Party which led to the nomination and election of Robert M. LaFollette as Governor. Soon thereafter, Philipp became dissatisfied with the Governor's tax and railroad policies, and started to lead a faction of Republicans opposed to LaFollette's reforms. With the Republican Party divided into many factions, Philipp used the opportunity to secure the nomination for Governor. He was elected on November 3, 1914, and reelected twice more, and served from January 4, 1915 until January 3, 1921. Ironically while Philipp ran as a conservative, his administration saw the implementation of many progressive ideas, including the increase of assistance to rural schools and the establishment of the State Department of Agriculture, the State Conservation Commission, and the State System of Accounting. With the advent of World War I, he further expanded the government to include the State Council of Defense and the State Food Administration. Challenging those who tried to stir up war-related hysteria, Philipp successfully ran for his third term on a platform which supported the war effort but also upheld the constitutional liberties of the citizens. Philipp did not choose to be a candidate in 1920, and he retired to his home in Milwaukee where he died in 1925.