Jesse S. Phillips

Jesse Snyder Phillips (May 4, 1871 – November 6, 1954) was an American lawyer, politician, and insurance executive from New York.

He was admitted to the New York bar a year later and began practicing law with Van Fleet.

In 1898, he was elected town supervisor, one of the youngest people to serve that position in the county at the time.

He was also Vice-Chairman of the Special Joint Legislative Committee formed in 1909 to investigate the direct primary system.

He was a delegate to the 1915 New York State Constitutional Convention, where he was Chairman of the Committee on Library and Information.

In 1915, Governor Whitman appointed him Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department.

In 1921, he resigned as Superintendent to become general manager and counsel of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, an organization which consisted of thirty leading stock companies in the United States.

Mary Cannon died in 1939, and in 1944 Phillips married Emily M. Rosebery of Boonton, New Jersey.