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As President and Owner of Philip M. Baptiste Insurance Agency Inc., he became one of the first African Americans to obtain licensure in Louisiana. He was the first African American appointed by Mayor Victor Schiro as a mayoral aide, and the first African American to serve the Orleans Parish Grand Jury in New Orleans. He was a political activist and served as Executive Director of Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater New Orleans (OIC of GNO), a national housing and job-training program.