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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasCAMPBELL, Philip Pitt
(1862—1941)
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.
Campbell, Philip Pitt. Roosevelt on Taft. Remarks on Hon. P. P. Campbell, of Kansas, in the House of Representatives, Monday, June 24, 1912
. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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