Philip P. Campbell

Philip Pitt Campbell ( born April 25, 1862 Cape Breton Iceland, Nova Scotia, Canada, † May 26 1941 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1923 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1867 Philip Campbell arrived with his parents in the Neosho County, Kansas. There he attended the public schools. By 1888 he studied at the Baker University in Baldwin City (Kansas ). After studying law and his 1889 was admitted to the bar he began in Pittsburg to work in his new profession.

Campbell was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1902, he was elected as its candidate in the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Alfred Metcalf Jackson on March 4, 1903. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1923 a total of ten legislative periods. He was from 1909 to 1911 chairman of the committee that dealt with the dikes along the Mississippi. From 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the Committee on Rules. In the elections of 1922, Campbell was, however, not confirmed. During his time in Congress, the First World War fell. Moreover 1913-1919 four additions to the United States Constitution were adopted. It was about the tax laws, the direct election of U.S. senators, women's suffrage and the alcohol prohibition.

In 1924, Campbell was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, was nominated to the President Calvin Coolidge for a further term. In the following years until his death in 1941, Philip Campbell worked as a lawyer in Washington.