George Campbell was a farmer and political figure in Ontario

Ontario

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. He represented Durham East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1890 to 1894 as a Conservative Equal Rights

Equal Rights Party (Canada)

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 member.

He was born in Hope township

Hope, Ontario

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, the son of an Irish

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 immigrant. In 1878, Campbell married Margaret Walsh. He served as deputy reeve and then reeve of Cavan township. Campbell's election in 1890 was overturned but he was reelected in the subsequent by-election held in 1891. Campbell lived in Millbrook.