Background
Campbell, Felix was born in 1829 in Brooklyn.
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Campbell, Felix was born in 1829 in Brooklyn.
Born in Brooklyn, he attended the common schools and became a manufacturer of iron pipe and a consulting engineer
Campbell was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1891. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1890 and in 1902 died in Brooklyn. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery.
He was president of the board of supervisors in 1858 and was appointed by Governor Tilden a member of the board of commissioners from New York to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876.