Philip P. Campbell
OfficeChairman of the House Rules Committee
Term startMarch 4, 1919
Term endMarch 4, 1923
SuccessorBertrand Snell
PartyRepublican Party
Birth date25 April 1862
Birth placeCape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death date26 May 1941 (aged 79)
Death placeWashington, D.C., U.S.
Alma materBaker University
Birth namePhilip Pitt Campbell
Resting placeAbbey Mausoleum in Arlington County, Virginia, then reinterred in National Memorial Park in Falls Church, Virginia
Office 1Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 3rd district
Successor 1William H. Sproul
Term start 1March 4, 1903
Term end 1March 3, 1923
PredecessorEdward W. Pou
Predecessor 1Alfred Metcalf Jackson
1blanknameSpeaker
1namedataFrederick H. Gillett

Philip Pitt Campbell (April 25, 1862 – May 26, 1941) was an American lawyer and politician who served ten terms as a U.S. representative from Kansas from 1903 to 1923,

Biography

Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, British North America, Campbell moved with his parents to Neosho County, Kansas, in 1867. He attended the common schools, and was graduated from Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, in 1888. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Pittsburg, Kansas.

Tenure in Congress

Campbell was elected as a Republican 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.

Later career and death

He served as Parliamentarian of the Republican National Convention in 1924.

He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., with residence in Arlington, Virginia.

He died in Washington, D.C., May 26, 1941. He was interred in Abbey Mausoleum in Arlington County, Virginia, then later reinterred at National Memorial Park in Falls Church, Virginia.