Phil Preis
Lawyer, Person
1950 –
Who is Phil Preis?
Phillip Wesley Preis, Sr., known as Phil Preis, is a Democratic politician and attorney, 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 Gustav Preis, Sr., a former Newellton mayor, who was also from 1976 to 1977 the president of the Louisiana Municipal Association.
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. His Baton Rouge law firm is Preis Gordon.
Preis ran unsuccessfully for governor 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 and in neighboring Franklin Parish, which includes Winnsboro.
In the October 23, 1999 gubernatorial election, 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 Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.
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- Born
- Apr 18, 1950
Newellton - Parents
- Profession
- Education
- Georgetown University
- Louisiana State University
- Newellton High School
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on July 23, 2013
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