By Chuck Johnson, Montana Free Press

Bob Campbell photographed in Missoula in 2022. Credit: Courtesy Campbell family
Campbell, who died in Missoula April 5, praised for his work on the 1972 Montana Constitution.
Tributes poured in Wednesday for Bob Campbell, who as a delegate to the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention wrote the document’s provisions for the right to privacy and the right to a clean and healthful environment.
Campbell died Tuesday night in Missoula. He was 81 and died of natural causes after suffering from dementia.
He also co-authored with delegate Mae Nan Ellingson this widely praised preamble to the state Constitution:
“We the people of Montana grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur of our mountains, the vastness of our rolling plains, and desiring to improve the quality of life, equality of opportunity and to secure the blessings of liberty for this and future generations do ordain and establish this constitution.”