Felix Campbell

Felix Campbell was an American businessman and politician who served four terms as a United States representative from New York from 1883 to 1891.

Biography

Born in Brooklyn, he attended the common schools and became a manufacturer of iron pipes and a consulting engineer. 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.

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 died from pneumonia at his home in Brooklyn on November 8, 1902. Interment was in Holy Cross [Cemetery, Brooklyn|Holy Cross Cemetery].