Senator Frank T. Campbell View All Years

Senator Dowell, from the joint committee appointed to draft appropriate resolutions on the life, character and public services of ex-Lieutenant-Governor Frank T. Campbell, submitted the following report:

Mr. President—Your committee appointed on the part of the Senate to draft suitable resolutions on the life, character and public services of Frank T. Campbell, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Iowa, would respectfully submit the following report:

To the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

WHEREAS, Frank T. Campbell, Lieutenant-Governor of Iowa from 1878 to 1882, departed this life after a lingering illness, at his home in Lima, Ohio, on the 6th day of March, A. D. 1907; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa has heard with deep sorrow and regret of the death of Iowa’s distinguished son and former Lieutenant-Governor, and that in his death this commonwealth mourns the loss of one of her honorable and patriotic sons.

Frank T. Campbell was born in the state of Ohio in the year 1836, and died at the ripe age of seventy-one years. At the age of twenty he moved to Iowa, and settled at Newton, in Jasper county, where he became associated with his brother in the management of the Newton Journal. Governor Campbell was a member of the State Senate and served during the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth General Assemblies, and was active in shaping the important legislation of that period, particularly the legislation referring to the regulation of railway passenger and freight rates. In March, 1888, he was appointed a member of the Railway Commission, and at the November election in the same year was elected to that position, the tenure of that office having been changed from appointive to elective.

Governor Campbell served as captain of Company “A” of the Fortieth Iowa Infantry during the War of the Rebellion, and performed able and patriotic service in behalf of his country; be it further

Resolved, That the General Assembly takes this occasion to testify its high appreciation of the exalted character and distinguished public services of Frank T. Campbell, and hereby extends to his bereaved family its sincere sympathy in their sorrow and affliction; be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be properly engrossed, authenticated by the President and Secretary of the Senate, and the Speaker and Clerk of the House, and sent to the members of his family.

JOHN B. SULLIVAN,

C. A. MEREDITH,

E. J. SIDEY,

Committee on part of the House.

C. C. DOWELL,

GEO. W. DUNHAM,

A. F. FRUDDEN,

Committee on part of the Senate.