Hugh John Munro Campbell (c. 1854 – 20 October 1921) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to merchant William Munro Campbell and Christina Matheson. He grew up in

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from the age of eight, and was an apprentice grocer before entering the family business. On 21 January 1880 he married Harriett Jarrett, with whom he had three children; he would later remarry on 9 June 1920, to Ethel May Waddell. In 1906 he won a by-election for the

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seat of Glenelg. A Liberal, he was a minister without portfolio in the

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government from 1918 to 1920. He lost his seat to a

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candidate in 1920 and was unsuccessful in attempting to regain it in 1921. Campbell died at St Kilda in 1921.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Hugh 1850s births 1921 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly