Alexander Campbell was a physician, fox rancher and political figure in Newfoundland

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. He represented St. John's in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly

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 from 1928 to 1932.

He was born on Prince Edward Island

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, educated at Prince of Wales College

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, McGill University

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, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

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 and the University of Vienna

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. Campbell came to Newfoundland in 1902 and set up practice in Bonne Bay. He moved to St. John's

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 two years later. He ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal Reform Party candidate for a seat in the Newfoundland assembly in 1919. Campbell was named to the Executive Council as Minister of Agriculture and Mines and became a member of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland

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 in 1920. He was accused of misspending government funds and a later investigation found that there was some truth to these accusations. When Richard Squires

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 refused to remove Campbell from cabinet in 1923, Squires was forced to resign as Prime Minister. Despite this, Campbell was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1928 and was named a minister without portfolio

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in the Executive Council. Campbell died in St. John's in 1940.