Background
CAMPBELL, Guy Edgar was born on October 9, 1871 in Fetterman, Taylor Company, W. Virginia. Son of William W. and Elmina (Straight) Campbell.
United States representative politician
CAMPBELL, Guy Edgar was born on October 9, 1871 in Fetterman, Taylor Company, W. Virginia. Son of William W. and Elmina (Straight) Campbell.
He attended Iron City Business College at Pittsburgh.
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.
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, District of Columbia He died at Willoughby, Ohio. Interment in Mount Union Cemetery, Robinson Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Republican Party, Democratic Party.
Spouse Edith Phillips, December 16, 1896.