Philip Pitt Campbell (April 25, 1862 – May 26, 1941) was a

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from

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Biography

Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Campbell moved with his parents to

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, in 1867. He attended the common schools, and was graduated from

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, in 1888. He studied law. He was

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in 1889 and commenced practice in

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. Campbell was elected as a

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to the Fifty-eighth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1923). He served as chairman of the Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River ( Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Rules ( Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress. Parliamentarian of the Republican National Convention in 1924. He resumed the practice of law in

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, with residence in

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. He died in

, May 26, 1941. He was interred in Abbey Mausoleum in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Philip Pitt 1862 births 1941 deaths Virginia Republicans Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas People from Cape Breton Island