JOSEPH CAMPBELL, U.S. AIDE;LED ACCOUNTING OFFIVE IN 50'S (original) (raw)
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL, U.S. AIDE
June 22, 1984
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Joseph Campbell, head of the General Accounting Office from 1955 to 1965, died yesterday at his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 84 years old.
As Comptroller General, his title as chief of the accounting office, Mr. Campbell supervised an agency that monitors how Federal agencies spend the money Congress appropriates. Mr. Campbell was credited with recovering millions of dollars in overcharges by contractors and others doing business with the Government and with exposing waste by Government agencies themselves.
In his tenure, the accounting office issued well-publicized reports on wasteful spending and improprieties involving defense contractors, the military services, the space program, welfare and antipoverty programs, cotton brokers, the Federal Communications Commission, atomic power plants, and national timber reserves. In 1964, the agency reported it saved taxpayers $321 million.
Mr. Campbell insisted that employees of the accounting office rigorously maintain their independence from their counterparts in executive agencies, even prohibiting them from playing in the Federal bowling league. Appointed by Eisenhower
Mr. Campbell was appointed by President Eisenhower to a 15-year term, retiring before his term was over for health reasons. The two men had become acquainted when Mr. Eisenhower was president of Columbia University and Mr. Campbell its treasurer and vice president in charge of business affairs.
Mr. Campbell was born in New York City March 25, 1900. He was graduated from Columbia University in 1924. A certified public accountant, he was a partner in the firm of Lingley, Baird and Dixon in the 1920s, ran his own firm in the 1930s and served at Columbia University in the 1940s.
He is survived by his wife, the former Dorothy Stokes Bostwick of Sarasota and Cooperstown, N.Y., and four of his five sons: Frederick of Grosse Point, Mich.; Douglas G. of Darien, Conn.; Dr. Robert Campbell of Rochester, N.Y.; and Colin G. of Middletown, Conn., president of Wesleyan University. He is also survived by three stepchildren: Suzanne Smith Dean, East Orleans, Mass.; Dorothy Smith Rudkin, Fairfield, Conn; and W.T. Sampson Jr., Sarasota. He is also survived by 24 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
Services are being planned in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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