Background
Mecom, Philip Henry was born on May 13, 1889 in Arcadia, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States. Son of William Hardy and Caroline Arledge Mecom.
Mecom, Philip Henry was born on May 13, 1889 in Arcadia, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States. Son of William Hardy and Caroline Arledge Mecom.
Student Louisiana State University, 1904-1905.
1 son, Philip Henry; remarried Mistress Minnie Brown Sherman of Haynesville, Louisiana, November 3, 1944. Deputy clerk District Court, Columbia, Louisiana, 1913-1915, same, and clerk Local Board, 1917-1919. Studied law while serving as minute clerk of court at Columbia and under private tutors in law offices in new Orleans and Columbia.
Admitted to bar in 1919. Assistant United States attorney, Western. District of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1921-1922.
United State Attorneys, same district, 1922-1936. Clerk, United States District Court, Western District, Louisiana, from July 1, 1941.
Member American, Louisiana and Shreveport bar associations, Louisiana History Society Chairman Republican State Central Committee, 1936-1941. Club: Shreveport Golf and Country (Shreveport).
Married Virginia Pullen, October 3, 1916 (divorced, 1935).