sentences:  He is remembered for being Toronto's first Jewish mayor, and for ending an unbroken string of Protestant mayors, all of whom for over a century, since the appointment of Thomas David Morrison in 1836, had also been members of the Protestant Orange Order.Born in Brockville, Ontario, the son of Jacob Phillips and Mary Rosenbloom, he was educated in public and high schools in Cornwall, Ontario.In 1908, he articled with the Cornwall lawyer, Robert Smith, who later would be named to the Supreme Court of Canada.