Lewis D. Campbell

Lewis D. Campbell

Lewis Davis Campbell (born August 9, 1811 in Franklin , Ohio , † November 26, 1882 in Hamilton , Ohio) was an American diplomat and politician of the United States Whig Party and the Democratic Party . March 4, 1849 to May 25, 1858 and March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the 2nd and 3rd  congressional district of the state of Ohio. From May 4, 1866 to June 16, 1867, he was the United States Envoy to Mexico .

biography

Lewis Campbell was born in Franklin to Samuel Campbell and Mary Small. There he attended public schools. From 1828 to 1831 he learned the art of printing . He then was an editor at the Cincinnati Gazette . From 1831 to 1835 he was editor of a newspaper in Hamilton . During this time he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1835. Until 1850 he worked as a lawyer in Hamilton. In the 1840s he worked in the private sector.

Campbell ran for a seat in the US House of Representatives in the congressional elections in 1840 , 1842 and 1844 , albeit unsuccessfully. In 1848 he was finally elected to the US House of Representatives in the 2nd District of Ohio as a candidate for the United States Whig Party. He followed David Fisher there . In 1850 he was re-elected. After the 1850 census , Ohio congressional boundaries were realigned. From then on he represented the 3rd district. After the United States Whig Party gradually dissolved, Campbell was re-elected to the House as a Know-Nothing Candidate in 1854 . There he took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Ways and Means until 1857 . In 1856 he was finally re-elected as a non-party candidate for the Republican Party . In 1858 it was decided by a 107 to 100 majority in the House that Campbell was not worthy of his mandate. He was then expelled. He was succeeded by Clement Vallandigham .

In 1861 and 1862 he was Colonel in the Union Army in the Civil War . He retired from the Army due to poor health. He was named United States Envoy to Mexico by President Andrew Johnson in 1866. He took office on May 4, 1866. General William T. Sherman was placed at his side. On June 16, 1867, he resigned and returned to Ohio.

In 1869 he sat in the State Senate . In 1870 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives as a candidate for the Democratic Party in the 3rd District of Ohio. In 1872 he was no longer up for re-election.

Campbell had been married to Jane Reily since 1836. He died in Hamilton in 1882 and was buried there in Greenwood Cemetery . His nephew, James E. Campbell , also sat in the US House of Representatives from 1884 to 1889 and was the 38th governor of Ohio from 1890 to 1892 .

Web links

• Lewis D. Campbell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lewis D. Campbell in the database of Find a Grave (English)