J. Campbell Cantrill

James Campbell Cantrill ( born July 9, 1870 in Georgetown, Kentucky, † September 2, 1923 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1923 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Campbell Cantrill Was the son of James E. Cantrill (1839-1908), who was 1879-1883 Vice- governor of Kentucky. He attended the common schools and the Georgetown College. He then studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After his training Cantrill worked until his death in agriculture. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1895 he was the chairman of the Scott County. In the years 1897 and 1899 Cantrill was elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky. Between 1901 and 1905 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1904 he was nominated for the congressional elections. Cantrill rejected this nomination from but. In the same year he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated on the Alton B. Parker as a presidential candidate. In 1908, Cantrill was president of the Farmer Association Society of Equity in Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1908 he was in the seventh election district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William P. Kimball on March 4, 1909. After seven elections he could remain until his death in 1923 at the Congress. In this time of the First World War fell. Moreover 1913-1920 the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. Between 1915 and 1919 Cantrill was chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions.

In 1923 he was nominated by his party as a candidate for the gubernatorial election in Kentucky. Cantrill, however, died during the next election campaign on September 2, 1923. His deputy's mandate was made after a special election to Joseph W. Morris.