Ed H. Campbell

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

Career

Ed Campbell attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made ​​in 1906 admitted to the bar he began in Battle Creek to work in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1908 and 1911 he was mayor of Battle Creek; 1911 to 1913 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Iowa. During the First World War he was a soldier in the U.S. Army in a military school at Fort Snelling in Minnesota.

Between 1920 and 1928, Campbell was sitting in the Senate of Iowa, its acting president, he was from 1924 to 1926. In the congressional elections of 1928, Campbell was in the eleventh electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William D. Boies on March 4, 1929. After a re-election in 1930 he was able to complete up to March 3, 1933 two terms in Congress, which were influenced by the events of the Great Depression. Shortly before the end of his term the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, the newly regulated the beginning and the end of the parliamentary terms in Congress as well as the terms of office of the President.

Ed Campbell was the last members of the eleventh electoral district of Iowa. This was disbanded in 1932 and re-numbered as the 9th District. Campbell defeated in the 1932 elections the Democrats Guy Gillette. After he retired from politics and worked as a lawyer again. He died on 26 April 1969 in his native Battle Creek.