Ed H. Campbell

Ed Hoyt Campbell (born March 6, 1882 in Battle Creek , Iowa , †  April 26, 1969 there ) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1933 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ed Campbell attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and his admission to the bar in 1906, he began to work in Battle Creek in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1908 and 1911 he was Mayor of Battle Creek; from 1911 to 1913 he was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives . During the First World War he was a soldier in the US Army in an officers' school at Fort Snelling , Minnesota .

Between 1920 and 1928 Campbell was a member of the Iowa Senate , of which he was acting president from 1924 to 1926. In the 1928 congressional election, Campbell was elected to the eleventh constituency of Iowa in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded William D. Boies on March 4, 1929 . After a re-election in 1930, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 , which were shaped by the events of the Great Depression. Shortly before the end of his term of office, the 20th amendment to the constitution was passed, which regulated the beginning and the end of the legislative periods in Congress and the terms of office of the President.

Ed Campbell was the last MP in the eleventh constituency of Iowa. This was dissolved in 1932 or renumbered as the 9th district. Campbell was defeated by the Democrat Guy Gillette in the 1932 election . Then he retired from politics and worked as a lawyer again. He died on April 26, 1969 in his birthplace, Battle Creek.

Web links

• Ed H. Campbell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ed H. Campbell in the database of Find a Grave (English)