Guy Edgar Campbell

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Guy Edgar Campbell (October 9, 1871–February 17, 1940) was a Democrat and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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[edit] Early life

Guy E. Campbell was born in Fetterman, West Virginia. In 1889, he moved to Pennsylvania with his parents, who located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1889, and in Crafton, Pennsylvania, in 1893. He attended Iron City Business College at Pittsburgh.

[edit] Business Activities

Campbell was employed as a clerk in the offices of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Pittsburgh, until June 1896, when he resigned. He was engaged in the general insurance business in Pittsburgh until 1903. He was interested in the production of oil and gas in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

[edit] United States House of Representatives

Campbell was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses, and as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He served as the Chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor during the Sixty-eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932. He became engaged in an advisory capacity in Washington, D.C. He died at Willoughby, Ohio. Interment in Mount Union Cemetery, Robinson Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

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Preceded by
Andrew J. Barchfeld		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 32nd congressional district
1917 - 1923		 Succeeded by
Stephen G. Porter
Preceded by
at-large: Joseph McLaughlin, Anderson H. Walters, William J. Burke, Thomas S. Crago		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 36th congressional district
1923 - 1933		 Succeeded by
District Eliminated


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