Philip P. Campbell

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Philip P. Campbell (1909)

Philip Pitt Campbell (born April 25, 1862 on Cape Breton Island , Nova Scotia , Canada , † May 26, 1941 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1923 he represented the third constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1867, Philip Campbell came to Neosho County , Kansas with his parents . There he attended public schools. Until 1888 he studied at Baker University in Baldwin City (Kansas). After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1889, he began to work in his new profession in Pittsburg .

Campbell was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1902 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington as their candidate in the third district of Kansas, where he succeeded Alfred Metcalf Jackson on March 4, 1903 . After nine re-elections, he was able to complete a total of ten legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1923 . There he was from 1909 to 1911 chairman of the committee that dealt with the levees along the Mississippi . From 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the Committee on Rules . In the 1922 election, Campbell was not confirmed. World War I fell during his time in Congress . In addition, four amendments to the United States Constitution were passed between 1913 and 1919 . It was about tax legislation, the direct election of US Senators , women's suffrage and alcohol prohibition .

In 1924 Campbell was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland , where President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for a further term. In the years that followed, until his death in 1941, Philip Campbell worked as a lawyer in Washington.

Web links

  • Philip P. Campbell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)