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| Campaign card (detail), 1912, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
CAMPBELL, Philip Pitt, 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 reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth
Congress; 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.
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