Guy Gibson Campbell

Guy Gibson Campbell (August 6, 1890 – December 2, 1957) was an American medical doctor. He served as a medical officer on a US Army transport during the first part of World War I before becoming a medical officer in British North Borneo. In 1932 Campbell returned to the United States to practice privately and five years later was appointed medical director of the Firestone Plantations Company in Liberia. In Liberia he met banker George Blowers; Blowers was later appointed governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia and secured Campbell a position working with the Ethiopian civil service. Campbell served as principal adviser to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and as personal physician to emperor Haile Selassie and claimed to have greatly expanded medical provision in that country. Campbell left Ethiopia in 1948 and served in South America with the Institute of Inter-American Affairs. In later life he operated a private medical practice in Indiana.

Early life and career

Guy Gibson Campbell was born on August 6, 1890, in Petersburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1913 and, during World War I, served as a medical officer on the US Army Transport Dix. From 1916 to 1932 Campbell served as medical officer in British North Borneo where he led campaigns on public health and nutrition and was cited by the colony's government for his work with aborigines. He transferred to become principal adviser to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health when it was founded in 1944 and also served as personal physician to the emperor, Haile Selassie.

Campbell later returned to private practice in Hammond, Dyer and Munster, Indiana. Campbell died at the Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in Dyer on December 2, 1957. After a funeral mass at St Joseph Church he was buried in St Joseph Cemetery, Dyer.