Phil Cates
| Phillip Ray "Phil" Cates | |
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Cates (c. 1974) while serving in the Texas House of Representatives
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| Texas State Representative for District 79 (Gray, Hansford, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, and Wheeler counties) | |
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In office January 12, 1971 – January 9, 1973 |
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| Preceded by | Malouf Abraham, Sr. (reconfigured from District 84) |
| Succeeded by | Ron Waters |
| Texas State Representative for District 66 (Armstrong, Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Floyd, Gray, Hall, Motley, and Wheeler counties) | |
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In office January 9, 1973 – January 9, 1979 |
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| Preceded by | George Baker |
| Succeeded by | Foster Whaley |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 6, 1947 Pampa, Gray County Texas, USA |
| Died | July 13, 2014 (aged 67) |
| Resting place | Texas State Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Holt Cates (married 1970-2014, his death) |
| Children | Andrew and John Cates |
| Parents | Herman Ray and Lavern Robertson Cates |
| Residence |
(1) Lefors, Gray County |
| Alma mater | West Texas A&M University |
| Occupation | Lobbyist |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
(1) Lefors, Gray County
(2) Shamrock
Wheeler County
(3) Austin, Texas
Phillip Ray Cates, known as Phil Cates (January 6, 1947 – July 13, 2014), was a lobbyist who served as a Democrat from 1971 to 1979 in the Texas House of Representatives. He represented some ten mostly thinly populated counties in the Texas Panhandle.
Cates was born in Pampa, the seat of government of Gray County, northeast of Amarillo, Texas, to Herman Ray Cates (1917-1998), a veteran of the United States Army Air Forces of World War II, and the former Lavern Robertson (1923-2009), a native of Beckham County, Oklahoma. He was reared in nearby Lefors, also in Gray County, where his parents are interred at Memorial Heights Cemetery.
Cates left Lefors in 1965 to enroll at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, then known as West Texas State University. There he was elected four times to the Student Senate and was a member of the Baptist Student Union and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. In 1998, West Texas A&M named him a "Distinguished Alumnus".
Cates married in 1970 the former Nancy Holt (also born 1947), originally from Pampa. Their two sons are Andrew and John Cates.
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