Colin Campbell (Scottish politician)
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Colin Campbell (born 31 August 1938, Paisley) is a Scottish politician. He was educated in the town's Paisley Grammar School. He was a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003.
In the 1999 Scottish election, he stood as a constituency candidate in West Renfrewshire, where he finished second behind Labour's Trish Godman. A head teacher before his 1999 election, he had previously stood for election to the House of Commons on behalf of the SNP on 3 occasions, and for election to the European Parliament twice, failing on each occasion.
In Holyrood, he was defence spokesman for the SNP, and retired from politics in 2003.
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- Colin Campbell MSP biography at the Scottish Parliament website
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Co-author of 'Can't Shoot a Man With a Cold, Lt E A Mackintosh MC 1893-1917, Poet of the Highland Division': Colin Campbell & Rosalind Green, Argyll Publishing 2004. ISBN 1 902831 76 4
