Philip Tomppert (June 21, 1808 – October 29, 1873) was the sixteenth and eighteenth Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky in 1865 and 1867 to 1868.
Philip Tomppert was born on June 21, 1808, in Württemberg, Germany and immigrated to Wheeling, West Virginia in 1831, and moved to Louisville in 1837.
[1] Tomppert was elected to the Kentucky General Assembly in 1849 and the Louisville City Council in 1861, serving until 1864.
Tomppert was a Democrat who advocated an end to the Civil War and return to the pre-war Union, with slavery intact.
Toppert had one daughter, Barbara, who married German newspaperman George Philip Doern.