Philip Oscar Selwyn Skoglund (14 June 1899 – 2 November 1975) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who served as a cabinet minister.

He also won 14 centre titles and reached the final four in national tournament on four occasions.

In the early 1950s he was the secretary and then president of the Manawatu Bowling Centre and organised the 1952 Easter tournament.

[2] He stood in the 1935 election in the Stratford electorate for the Labour Party, but was beaten by the incumbent, William Polson.

[6] As Minister of Education he introduced free school textbooks for secondary school pupils, raised teacher salaries and commissioned the Hughes Parry report (prepared by Professor David Hughes Parry, a former vice-chancellor of the University of London), which made recommendations for expansions in New Zealand universities.

Some, such as Walter Nash and Fintan Patrick Walsh, felt that Roman Catholic voters had turned against Labour at the election because it did not give full support to state aid for private schools although others such as Nash's biographer, Keith Sinclair, doubt whether it was a significant factor.

[9] After his exit from parliament, Skoglund became a secretary to Walter Nash in 1961 while the latter was Leader of the Opposition.