Jacob Miller Campbell (November 20, 1821 – September 27, 1888) was a

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member of the

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from

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. He also served as an officer and, later on, served more roles in the

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during the

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Early life

Jacob M. Campbell was born at "White Horse," near

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. He moved with his parents to

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, in 1826. He attended the public schools and learned the art of printing in the office of the ''Somerset Whig''. He was later connected with a magazine publishing company in

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and with leading newspapers in

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. He was engaged in steamboating on the lower

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from 1841 to 1847 and in gold mining in

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in 1851. He aided in the building of the Cambria Iron Works in

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, in 1853, and was employed by that company until 1861, when he resigned. Campbell was a delegate to the first Republican National Convention at

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Civil War

Campbell served in the Union Army as a

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and quartermaster of Company G, Third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He recruited the 54th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned its

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on February 27, 1862. He was

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as a

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in the 1866 omnibus promotions following the war, to date from March 13, 1865.

Postbellum

After the war, Campbell returned to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and served as surveyor general (later secretary of internal affairs) of Pennsylvania from 1865 to 1871. Campbell was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878. He was again elected to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses. He served as chairman of the

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during the Forty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886. He remained financially interested in banking and in the manufacture of steel, and served as chairman of the Republican State convention in 1887. Jacob Campbell died in Johnstown in 1888. He was interred there in

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References

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The Political Graveyard

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Jacob M. Campbell, Papers
{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Jacob Miller 1821 births 1888 deaths Union Army colonels People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American legislators

Early life

Civil War

Postbellum

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