Timothy J. Campbell

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Timothy John Campbell (1840-1904) of New York City, born in County Cavan, Ireland was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1885 to 1889 and 1891 to 1895. He was a Democrat.

Campbell earned a touch of immortality of an attributed nature. He is reported to have said to President Grover Cleveland, upon Cleveland's saying he would not support a bill on the grounds that the bill was unconstitutional, "What's the Constitution between friends?" (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th ed.)

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• Timothy J. Campbell at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress