James R. Campbell

James Romulus Campbell ( * May 4, 1853 in McLeansboro, Illinois; † August 12, 1924 ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Campbell attended the common schools and studied at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana after. After a subsequent law degree in 1877 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in McLeansboro in this profession. Between 1870 and 1898 he was there also owner and publisher of a daily newspaper. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1884 and 1888 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Illinois; 1888 to 1896 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Campbell was in the 20th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Orlando Burrell on March 4, 1897. Since he resigned in 1898 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1899. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. James Campbell took as an officer of an infantry unit from Illinois participated in this war. Thereafter he remained until 1901 in the military. He was stationed as a brigadier general in the Philippines. After his return to McLeansboro he worked there in the mill business and the banking industry. He died on 12 August 1924.