Robert Alexander Campbell

Robert Alexander Campbell (born September 2, 1832 in Bowling Green , Missouri , †  April 2, 1926 in St. Louis , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1885 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Missouri.

Career

Robert Campbell attended his home public schools and the Spring River Academy of Missouri . In 1852 he left Illinois College in Jacksonville prematurely . He then taught as a teacher for a year. Then he went to California with his father , where he worked in agriculture and mining until 1854. He then moved to Missouri. There he initially worked as an employee of a company. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1860, he began to practice this profession. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army ( 49th Missouri Infantry ). After the war he worked again as a lawyer in Bowling Green until 1869. Then he got into the railroad business. Among other things, he became president of the Louisiana and Missouri River Railway Company . From 1874 he lived in St. Louis. Later he was also involved in various other business sectors.

Politically Campbell joined the Democratic Party . In the 1850s he held several administrative positions with the Missouri House of Representatives ; in 1861 he was secretary of the assembly that should decide on the future of the state in view of the secession of the southern states at that time . In August 1864 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where George B. McClellan was nominated as a presidential candidate. Four years later he was again a delegate at the Democratic nomination convention. In 1868 and 1878 he was elected to the state legislature, where he temporarily headed the banking committee. However, it is not known exactly in which chamber he sat. In 1880 Campbell was elected Lieutenant Governor of Missouri alongside Thomas Theodore Crittenden . He held this office between January 10, 1881 and January 12, 1885. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . Between 1885 and 1889 he held the post of Comptroller of the City of St. Louis. He was then a judge at the Criminal Court of St. Louis . After the end of his tenure there, he retired. He died in St. Louis on April 2, 1926, at the age of 93, when he fell in an accident and broke his neck.

Web links

• Robert Alexander Campbell in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard
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