Felix Campbell

Felix Campbell ( born February 28, 1829 in Brooklyn, New York, † November 8, 1902 ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1891 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Felix Campbell visited community schools. Subsequently he was a manufacturer of steel pipes and worked as a consulting engineer. About three years before the outbreak of the Civil War, he came to the county council, where he held the position of president. Because of the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 appointed him Governor Tilden in the Board of Commissioners of New York. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1882 Campbell was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Archibald M. Bliss on March 4, 1883. He ran in 1884 in the second electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he resigned on March 4, 1885 to succeed William E. Robinson. He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1890, he retired after March 3, 1891 from the Congress. He died on 8 November 1902 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery.