[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 27 (Friday, February 17, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E230-E231]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  IN HONOR OF ALBERT PHILLIPS REICHERT

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, February 17, 2012

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart and 
solemn remembrance that I come to the House Floor today to pay tribute 
to one of Macon, Georgia's most renowned attorneys and respected 
community leaders, the late Albert Phillips Reichert. Mr. Reichert 
passed away on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at the age of 98 years old. 
A memorial service will be held in his honor at Vineville United 
Methodist Church at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, February 21, 2012, with Dr. 
Marcus Tripp and Reverend James Duke officiating.
  A Georgia native, Mr. Reichert was born on January 25, 1914, in 
Columbus, Georgia, the son of Jacob and Ann Phillips Reichert. He 
graduated from Lanier High School in Macon and enrolled at Emory 
University in 1932, where he worked various jobs to help pay his way 
through college. After finishing his undergraduate studies, he attended 
Duke University and on December 22, 1936, married Elizabeth Walton 
Bowen from Macon, who was then also a student at Duke. Mr. Reichert 
received his Master's Degree in Philosophy from Duke in 1937.
  Following his marriage and his graduation from Duke University, Mr. 
Reichert served as an officer in the United States Navy during World 
War II in the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters. After the war, he worked 
for the Central of Georgia Railway in Macon while attending Mercer 
University's Walter F. George School of Law, where he graduated cum 
laude in 1948.
  After graduating from law school, Mr. Reichert embarked on what would 
be a tenured and highly successfully legal career. He began his 
professional legal career as an attorney with the firm of Anderson, 
Anderson & Walker, which later became Anderson, Walker & Reichert.
  Over the course of his distinguished legal career, Mr. Reichert 
received several awards and recognitions for his many notable legal 
achievements. The General Practice and Trial Section of the State Bar 
of Georgia awarded him the Tradition of Excellence Award. Mercer 
University awarded him the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award and the 
Outstanding Alumnus Award. It is also worth noting that Mr. Reichert 
handled many pro bono cases throughout his career and he was listed in 
Best Lawyers in America.
  Mr. Reichert also played a very pro-active role in several community 
service initiatives

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throughout the State of Georgia, including serving as president and as 
campaign chair for the United Givers Fund (now United Way). As a youth, 
he was a Boy Scout and reached the rank of Eagle Scout. As an adult, he 
was Scoutmaster of Troop 19 in Macon and served as chair of the Central 
Georgia Council, and received the Silver Beaver Award.
  He is survived by his wife of 75 years, Elizabeth Walton Bowen 
Reichert; his son, Albert Phillips Reichert, Jr. and Albert's wife, 
Burnam ``Bebe'' Walker Reichert; his son, Stephen Allan Reichert; his 
son, Robert Adger Bowen Reichert and Robert's wife, Adele Dunwody 
Reichert; his grandchildren, Albert Phillips Reichert, Ill and Albert's 
wife, Dr. Gillian Tracy Braulik, John Walker Reichert, Elizabeth Bowen 
Reichert, and Thomas Dunwody Reichert; and his great-grandchildren, 
Eden Pape Reichert, Luna Walker Reichert, and Sarana Burnam Reichert; 
his sister, Mary Louise Reichert Earnhardt, and his sister, Beverly 
Reichert Kennon.
  I would like to ask my colleagues to join me in paying homage to 
Albert Phillips Reichert. He lived a full life and the people of Middle 
Georgia will always be indebted to him for his high legal acumen and 
years of dedicated community service. Our thoughts and prayers are with 
his family, friends and the Macon, Georgia community at this time of 
great loss.

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