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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Rubel Lex Phillips =
| name=Rubel Lex Phillips =
| office=[[Mississippi]] Public Service Commissioner
| office=[[Mississippi]] Public Service Commissioner
| term_start=1956
| term_start=1956
'''Rubel Lex Phillips, Sr.''' (March 29, 1925 – June 18, 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=December 8, 2011}}</ref>) was an [[attorney]], [[business]]man, and [[politician]] from [[Mississippi]] best known for his losing [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[governor|gubernatorial]] campaigns of 1963 and 1967.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/clarionledger/obituary.aspx?n=rubel-phillips&pid=152099370 |title=Rubel Phillips Obituary|publisher=''Jackson Clarion Ledger''|date=June 20, 2011|accessdate=December 19, 2011}}</ref>
'''Rubel Lex Phillips, Sr.''' (March 29, 1925 – June 18, 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=December 8, 2011}}</ref>) was an [[attorney]], [[business]]man, and [[politician]] from [[Mississippi]] best known for his losing [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[governor|gubernatorial]] campaigns of 1963 and 1967.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/clarionledger/obituary.aspx?n=rubel-phillips&pid=152099370 |title=Rubel Phillips Obituary|publisher=''Jackson Clarion Ledger''|date=June 20, 2011|accessdate=December 19, 2011}}</ref>
Previously, as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Phillips was a circuit court] clerk in Alcorn County in northeastern Mississippi and a member and chairman of the Mississippi Public Service Commission from 1956 to 1959. By 1963, he had switched parties to become only the third Republican since 1877 to seek his state's governorship. Phillips ran on the slogan of "K.O. the Kennedys",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cresswellslist.com/ballots2/phillips.htm|title=K.O. The Kennedys! The 1963 Rubel Phillips Campaign in Mississippi|publisher=cresswellslist.com|accessdate=November 1, 2011}}</ref> even though he had backed [[U.S. Senator]] [[John F. Kennedy]] for the presidency in 1960 over the Republican [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]]. Phillips, with 38 percent of the ballots cast, lost to Democrat Paul Burney Johnson, Jr., the son of a former Governor Paul Johnson, Sr. That election was held barely two weeks prior to the [[assassination]] of President Kennedy in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]].
Previously, as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Phillips was a circuit court] clerk in Alcorn County in northeastern Mississippi and a member and chairman of the Mississippi Public Service Commission from 1956 to 1959. By 1963, he had switched parties to become only the third Republican since 1877 to seek his state's governorship. Phillips ran on the slogan of "K.O. the Kennedys",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cresswellslist.com/ballots2/phillips.htm|title=K.O. The Kennedys! The 1963 Rubel Phillips Campaign in Mississippi|publisher=cresswellslist.com|accessdate=November 1, 2011}}</ref> even though he had backed [[U.S. Senator]] [[John F. Kennedy]] for the presidency in 1960 over the Republican [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]]. Phillips, with 38 percent of the ballots cast, lost to Democrat Paul Burney Johnson, Jr., the son of a former Governor Paul Johnson, Sr. That election was held barely two weeks prior to the [[assassination]] of President Kennedy in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]].
In 1967, Phillips ran as a [[Moderate Republican]] but lost decisively to the [[conservative]] Democrat John Bell Williams, then a veteran a [[U.S. Representative]].
In 1967, Phillips ran as a [[Moderate Republican]] but lost decisively to the [[conservative]] Democrat John Bell Williams, then a veteran a [[U.S. Representative]].