Education
Harvard Law School.
Harvard Law School.
He played college football at Yale University and was selected as a consensus All-American at the halfback position in 1909. After graduating from Yale, Philbin attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1913. After receiving his degree, he practiced for three year with a law firm in Dallas, Texas.
In 1916, he joined the New York firm of Fish, Richardson & Neave as a patent lawyer
He spent most of his career with that firm. During World War I, he served with the Army Signal Corps in a unit commanded by Fiorello Louisiana Guardia in Foggia, Italy.
During World World War II, while Louisiana Guardia was mayor of New York, Philbin served as the general counsel of the city"s Civil Defense Volunteer Office. Philbin died in November 1973 at his summer home in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Philbin was also captain of the Yale Bulldogs baseball team and a member of Skull and Bones.
