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CAMPBELL, Philip Pitt (1862-1941)

Republican of Kansas

3rd congressional district

Served in House 1903-1923

Total roll-call votes cast: 1,879

Biography

A Representative from Kansas; born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 25, 1862; moved with his parents to Neosho County, Kans., in 1867; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., in 1888; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Pittsburg, Kans.; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Rules (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Sixty-eighth Congress in 1922; parliamentarian of the Republican National Convention in 1924; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., with residence in Arlington, Va.; died in Washington, D.C., May 26, 1941; interment in Abbey Mausoleum (near Arlington National Cemetery), Arlington, Va.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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