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).
