Campbell Polson Berry

Campbell Polson Berry ( born November 7, 1834 Jackson County, Alabama; † January 8, 1901 in Wheatland, California ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Campbell Berry was a cousin of U.S. Senator and Governor James Henderson Berry (1841-1913) from Arkansas. In 1841 he moved with his parents to Berryville, Arkansas, where he attended primary school; From 1857 he lived near Yuba City, California. He studied until 1865 at the Pacific Methodist College at Vacaville. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1866 and 1869 he was district administrator in Sutter County. His main job was working in agriculture and for a short time on the market. From 1869 and 1878, Berry sat several times as a deputy in the California State Assembly. In the years 1877 and 1878, he served as its president.

In the congressional elections of 1878 Berry was the third electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John K. Luttrell on March 3, 1879. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two legislative sessions. In 1882 he gave up another candidacy. Between 1894 and 1898 Berry worked as Subtreasurer of the United States for the U.S. Treasury in San Francisco. He died on January 8, 1901 in Wheatland.