Timothy J. Campbell

Mullahoran in County Cavan, Ireland, gave birth to Timothy J. Campbell on January 8, 1840, the quiet starting point for a loud American career. He crossed the Atlantic, became a New York lawyer, and spent decades voting in state and national chambers. When President Grover Cleveland cited the Constitution against a friendly bill, Campbell answered, “What's the Constitution between friends?” That joke still flies because it captures a man who treated law as a tool for people he liked, not a cage for everyone.