Hugh Campbell (New Zealand politician)

[1] His father, Hugh Campbell, was a sheep farmer in Australia, then in Wānaka, and finally in Poukawa south of Hastings.

[1] On 31 January 1900, he married Mildred Rachel Ralston at Carnarvon in the Manawatu.

[1] Campbell founded the Hawke's Bay Tribune in 1910 with his brother-in-law, John Chambers, and George Nelson.

They encouraged him to become politically active and replace the conservative politician Sir William Russell, who had retired from the Hawke's Bay electorate at the 1905 election.

[1][2] Campbell first stood in the Hawke's Bay electorate in the 1911 election and defeated the Liberal candidate in the second ballot.