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3 unusual facts about Philip N. Diehl


Philip N. Diehl

In January 2013, the platinum coin law received widespread media attention when Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, and Laurence Tribe, a prominent constitutional law professor at the Harvard School of Law, endorsed a proposal to use the law to mint a trillion dollar coin.

Diehl graduated from Lubbock High School in Lubbock, Texas and earned a B.A. degree from Austin College where he was a member of Sigma Tau Epsilon and active in political organizing on campus and in the community.

He was the PUC's liaison to the Texas Legislature during a major reform of state laws regulating the telecommunications industry, and he led the commission's opposition to AT&T's attempt at deregulation by the legislature.


Philip Howard

Philip N. Howard, Canadian American sociologist and professor of communication at the University of Washington's Department of Communication

Philip N. Krasne

He acquired the rights to O. Henry's The Cisco Kid and filmed the half-hour Cisco Kid television shows in color.

Walter S. Diehl

Walter Stuart Diehl (1893-1976), an American naval officer and pioneer in aerodynamics and aeronautical design.


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