Campbell Bascom Slemp (1870 - 1943)

Born 4 Sep 1870 in Turkey Cove, Lee County, Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Died 7 Aug 1943 at age 72 in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA

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Biography

Campbell Slemp is Notable.

Campbell was born in 1870. He was the son of Campbell Slemp and Nancy Cawood. He passed away in 1943.

Campbell Bascom Slemp, (son of Campbell Slemp), a Representative from Virginia, was born at Turkey Cove, Lee County, Va., on September 4, 1870. He attended the public schools and was graduated from Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1891. He studied law in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice at Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.^[1]

Campbell was commandant of cadets at Marion Military Institute for one year; professor of mathematics at Virginia Military Institute for several years, resigning in 1901 to enter professional and business life at Big Stone Gap, Va. He was chairman of the Republican State committee from 1905 to 1918, when he was elected a member of the Republican National Committee. He was then elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Campbell Slemp. He was reelected to the Sixty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from December 17, 1907, to March 3, 1923 He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1922. He was appointed secretary to President Calvin Coolidge on September 4, 1923, and served until March 4, 1925, when he resigned. Campbell continued the practice of his profession in Big Stone Gap, Va., and in Washington, D.C., until 1932, when he retired and resided at Big Stone Gap, Va.^[1] After leaving the Coolidge administration, Slemp returned to his law practice in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and Washington D.C. In 1930, President Herbert Hoover appointed Slemp as United States Commissioner General to the International Colonial and Overseas Exposition in Paris, and at its conclusion in 1931, France awarded Slemp the French Legion of Honor Medal.^[2][3]

He briefly married Roberta Trousdale Barton (1891-1911) in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 26, 1911, but their daughter was stillborn the following year.^[2]

Campbell Bascom Slemp died August 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tenn.; interment in the family cemetery at Turkey Cove, Va. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000486 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Bascom_Slemp Wikipedia
3. ↑ http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,744520,00.html Time Magazine, 1932

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