Philip E. Ruppe is a former politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Ruppe was born in Laurium, Michigan in 1926 and graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan from 1944 to 1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean conflict as lieutenant. He returned home to become president of the family business, Bosch Brewing Company. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Company of Detroit. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger to be elected to the 90th Congress and was subsequently re-elected to the next five Congresses, serving from January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1979. As U.S. representative, he was a member of the Interior Committee and ranking member of the Merchant Marine Committee. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the 96th Congress. After leaving Congress, Ruppe was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1982 against Donald W. Riegle, Jr.. He served as president of Woodlak Company to 1986. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1992 to the 103rd Congress, losing to Bart Stupak. His wife, Loret Miller Ruppe, was a Presidential Elector for Michigan in 1980, Director of the Peace Corps from 1981-1989, and U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 1989-93.