Title: William Phillips Sr.
Content:  William Phillips Sr. (1722–1804) was a Boston merchant, politician, and a major benefactor of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Title: William Phillips (geologist)
Content:   William Phillips FGS FRS (10 May 1775 – 2 April 1828) was an English mineralogist and geologist.
Title: William M. Phillips
Content:  William Milton Phillips (September 20, 1900 – June 9, 1962) was a Republican businessman and politician from Philadelphia. Phillips was born in Philadelphia in 1900 to David and Sally Phillips, and was a descendant of Declaration of Independence signer Samuel Chase. He graduated from Northeast High School in Philadelphia and attended the West Philadelphia Commercial School, a private business academy. He married Marian E. Thompson and had one daughter, Patricia. He worked in sales for the Narragansett Wire Company and became involved in local Republican politics. In the 1951 municipal election, Phillips worked with an independent faction of Republicans for the mayoral nomination of Walter P. Miller, who lost to minister Daniel A. Poling, and for the district attorney nomination 
Title: William Phillips (British Army officer)
Content:  William Phillips (1731 – 13 May 1781) was a renowned artilleryman and general officer in the British Army who served as a major-general in the American War of Independence.
Title: William Phillips (basketball)
Content:  William Warren "Bill" Phillips (born March 18, 1979) is a French-American former basketball player. He is the son of William and Dominique Phillips, who both played professional basketball in France. His mother is French, while father is American. He played as a power forward.
Title: William Phillips Sr.
Content:  He was a son of Samuel Phillips, pastor of the South Church in Andover, and was a descendant of George Phillips of Watertown, the progenitor of the New England Phillips family in America. Unlike his brothers, Phillips did not attend Harvard College, instead embarking on a career in the merchant trade, working in the warehouse of merchant Edward Bromfield. He eventually became Bromfield's business partner, and married his daughter Abigail in 1744. In the 1760s Phillips became active in Boston politics, serving as a town selectman from 1767. He was active on committees established to organize opposition to unpopular British policies, including one to organize agreement and enforcement of a ban in the importation of goods from Britain subject 
Title: William Phillips (botanist)
Content:  Born at Presteign in Radnorshire, on 4 May 1822, he was fourth son in a family of ten children of Thomas Phillips and Elizabeth, daughter of James Cross. After receiving some education at a school at Presteign, Phillips was apprenticed to his elder brother James, a tailor, in High Street, Shrewsbury, with whom and another brother, Edward, he went in due course into partnership. In 1859 he joined the Shrewsbury volunteers, and became a colour-sergeant. Phillips was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1875, and was fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He became a borough magistrate in 1886, and was presented with the freedom of the borough on 17 August 1903. He died of heart-disease at his residence in Canonbury, Shrewsbury, on 23 October 1905, aged 83, and was buried in the general cemetery in Longden Road, Shrewsbury.
Title: William Phillips (botanist)
Content: Attribution 
Title: William M. Phillips
Content:  land holdings in Center City Philadelphia, which many saw as an obstacle to expansion of the city's business district. In 1954, Phillips joined with Democrats James Hugh Joseph Tate and Michael J. Towey in attempting to weaken the civil service reform of the new charter, but they were unsuccessful. In the election the next year, Phillips considered running for reelection, but withdrew in favor of lawyer David Zwanetz. Zwanetz went on to lose to Democrat Gaetano Giordano. In 1958, Phillips ran for the Republican nomination to Congress in Pennsylvania's 3rd district, but lost to James T. McDermott by a substantial margin. In 1962, he died of a pulmonary embolism at Roxborough Memorial Hospital. He was buried in Northwood Cemetery.
Title: William Phillips (botanist)
Content:  William Phillips (4 May 1822 – 23 October 1905) was a Wales-born English botanist and antiquary.

Question: What is William Phillips, Sr.'s occupation?
Answer: politician.
political leader.
political figure.
polit.
pol.