Guy Edgar Campbell

Guy Edgar Campbell ( born October 9, 1871 in Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, † February 17, 1940 in Willoughby, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1933 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Guy Campbell attended the public schools and high schools of his home. In 1889, he moved with his parents to Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania; 1893 the family moved to the neighboring town of Crafton on. He attended the Iron City Business College in Pittsburgh and worked there until 1896 then as a clerk for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He then worked until 1903 in the insurance industry. He then became involved in Pennsylvania and West Virginia in the gas and oil business. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1916, Campbell was the 32nd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Andrew Jackson Barchfeld on March 4, 1917. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1933 eight legislatures. Since 1923, he represented the 36th district where his state. Also in 1923, Campbell was for the Republican Party in Congress, to which he had converted the meantime. Between 1923 and 1925 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Labour. During his time in Congress, the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages as well as the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

In 1932, Guy Campbell was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked as a consultant in the federal capital Washington. He died on 17 February 1940 in Willoughby.