Phillip Markey (August 1, 1913 – January 7, 2003)[1] was an American lawyer who served one term as a Progressive member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
[4] Markey had polled 1458 votes, to 1448 for Republican Cleveland Colbert; 917 for Democrat Charles Bennett; 652 for Independent Progressive Joseph Alberti; and 109 for Socialist Robert Repas.
[5] Markey ran for re-election in 1944 as a Republican, and was defeated in a three-way race by African American Democrat Le Roy Simmons, although he did finish ahead of the Progressive candidate.
In 1951, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled that he and his brother Maurice (also a lawyer) had been guilty of unprofessional conduct.
They are that the defendants were guilty of unprofessional conduct in that they conspired and acted together: While they were not disbarred, they were reprimanded, and their licenses to practice were suspended until they paid the costs of the proceeding against them, which, the Court noted, "it appears will involve a considerable sum".