Phillip Bancroft was a lawyer, farmer, and politician. Born in 1881 in San Francisco, California, Bancroft earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard in 1903 and his law degree from Hastings College of Law in 1905. He worked as an attorney and became involved in the California Republican Party until 1917, when he enlisted in the army, and returned in 1919 to become a farmer. He became the president of Contra Costa Associated Farmers in 1935, later unsuccessfully running as the Republican Candidate for California Senator in 1938 and 1940. In this interview, Bancroft discusses his father Hubert Howe Bancroft, the Progressive Era and Lincoln-Roosevelt League in the Republican party, Republican National Conventions in the early twentieth century, the founding of the American Legion, organization of the Associated Farmers, suppression of organized farm labor during the Great Depression, and fruit and nut farming in Contra Costa County. This interview also includes a brief interview with his wife, Nina Bancroft.