Background
James Reese Phifer was born on February 19, 1916 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His father was William Phifer and his mother, Olga Gough.
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He graduated from the University of Alabama, where he received a bachelor"s degree, followed by a law degree.
Career
He also learned how to fly planes. Phifer started his career as a lawyer During World World War II, he helped train British and French pilots.
In 1952, Phifer founded the Phifer Aluminum Screen Company, a manufacturing company.
The firm made Phifer, an insect screening made of fiberglass. lieutenant also produced Sunscreen, a sunrayand heat-resistant sunscreen, and Phifertex, a coating made of vinyl which protects furniture from the sun.
By 1956, he renamed the company Phifer Wire Products. lieutenant is now known as Phifer, Incorporated.
By 1998, according to The New York Times, it produced "more than half the world"s aluminum insect screening and more than 60 percent of the world"s fiberglass insect screening."
Phifer founded the Reese Phifer Junior.
Memorial Trust, a philanthropic non-profit organization, in 1964. Additionally, he made charitable contributions to his alma mater, the University of Alabama. By 1991, the Reese Phifer Hall was renamed in his honor.
He was inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame in 1991.
Ten years later, in 2001, he was inducted into the Tuscaloosa County Civic Hall of Fame. He died in 1998 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
