Phil Preis
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| Phillip Wesley "Phil" Preis, Sr. (Louisiana attorney and former gubernatorial candidate) | |
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| Born | April 18, 1950 Newellton, Tensas Parish Louisiana, U.S.A. Resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Political Party | Democrat / later Republican |
| Spouse | Terry Preis Children: |
Phillip Wesley Preis, Sr., known as Phil Preis (born April 18, 1950), is an attorney and former politician, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who specializes in mergers and acquisitions. A native of Newellton in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, Preis is the son of Patricia M. Preis of Newellton and Edwin Preis, a former Newellton mayor and from 1976 to 1977 the president of the Louisiana Municipal Association.[1]
Preis graduated in 1968 from the defunct Newellton High School. In 1972, he obtained his Bachelor of Science in accounting from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He procured his Juris Doctor degree in 1975 from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is affiliated with Omicron Delta Kappa; Beta Gamma Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi.[2] His Baton Rouge law firm is Preis Gordon.
Preis ran unsuccessfully for governor as a Democrat in both 1995 and 1999. In the October 21, 1995 gubernatorial election, he finished fifth in a field of sixteen candidates with 9.03 percent of the vote. He received a plurality of the vote in his native Tensas Parish (36.91 percent) and in neighboring Franklin Parish (26.17 percent), which includes Winnsboro.[3]
In the gubernatorial election of October 23, 1999, Preis ran fourth among eleven candidates, having polled 1.81 percent of the statewide vote. That race was decisively won by the incumbent Republican Governor Mike Foster.[4]In 2017, Preis was listed by the Louisiana Secretary of State's office as a Republican voter in East Baton Rouge Parish.[5]
Preis and his wife, Terry, have four children, Phillip Preis, Jr., Caroline Preis Graham, Michael Preis, of Austin, Texas, and Jennifer Preis, of Dallas, Dallas, Texas. Preis's brother, Edwin G. Preis, Jr. (born 1947), is an attorney with the firm, Preis and Roy in Lafayette, Louisiana. His sister, Patricia Preis Thompson, is married to Dr. Tony Thompson, formerly of Newellton and now of Nacogdoches, Texas. Patricia Thompson's late father-in-law was the Tensas Parish School Superintendent Charles E. Thompson.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edwin G. Preis. The Baton Rouge Advodate, July 29, 2011. Retrieved on August 2, 2011.
- ↑ Phillip W. Preis, Lawyer Profile. martindale.com. Retrieved on January 20, 2011.
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, Gubernatorial primary election returns, October 21, 1995.
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, Gubernatorial primary ele4ction returns, October 23, 1999, Retrieved October 30, 2008.
- ↑ Phillip Price (April 1950). Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved on June 4, 2017.
