Johnston B. Campbell
Johnston Byron Campbell (born August 5, 1868 in Stillwater, Minnesota , died November 5, 1953 in Spokane, Washington ) was an American lawyer and a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission from 1921 to 1930.
Life
After attending school, he began studying at the University of Minnesota and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree . From 1890 he worked as a lawyer in Duluth . In 1897 he relocated to Moorhead, Minnesota and finally moved to Spokane in 1903.
There he worked for the Spokane Merchants' Association. This company represented the interests of companies and farms vis-à-vis the railway companies and tried to achieve lower freight rates for the region.
During the First World War he worked in the United States Railroad Administration on the Freight Traffic Committee for the Portland (Oregon) area.
The Transportation Act of 1920 increased the number of seats on the Interstate Commerce Commission from nine to eleven. President Woodrow Wilson proposed James Duncan for this seat on May 4, 1920. However , no action was taken by the Senate to confirm the nomination. Wilson set Duncan in the context of a vacancy nomination on June 9, 1920, but he did not take office and did not take the oath of office. Finally, on April 21, 1921, the Republican Johnston B. Campbell was nominated for the vacant seat by the subsequent US President Warren G. Harding . On May 3, 1921, the Senate was confirmed and two days later he took the oath of office. Until then, he was a driving force in a lawsuit before the Interstate Commerce Commission, in which it was the freight tariffs in the northwestern United States. On the day of his Senate nomination, the procedure was rejected by the ICC.
In December 1924 he was re-elected for a new term until December 31, 1931. In 1928 he was chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. In December 1929 he announced the end of his activity in the ICC on January 6, 1930. His seat was later occupied by William E. Lee .
He then worked again as a lawyer in Spokane, where he died on November 5, 1953.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ ICC practitioners' journal. v.21 no.2 (1953). P. 121 , accessed on January 4, 2018 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Campbell, Johnston B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Campbell, Johnston Byron (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and member of the Interstate Commerce Commission (1921–1930) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stillwater, Minnesota |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1953 |
| Place of death | Spokane (Washington) |