James Hepburn Campbell (February 8, 1820 – April 12, 1895) was an
Opposition Party
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and
Republican
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member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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.
Biography
James Hepburn Campbell was born in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
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. He graduated from the law department of
Dickinson College in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1841. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Pottsville, Pennsylvania
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. In 1842, he married author
Juliet Hamersley Lewis, the daughter of Judge
Ellis Lewis
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Life and career
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,
Pennsylvania Attorney General
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and Chief Justice of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
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. Campbell was a delegate to the
1844 Whig National Convention
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.
Campbell was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the
Thirty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1856
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to the
Thirty-fifth Congress. He was again elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-sixth and
Thirty-seventh Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in
1862.
During the
American Civil War
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, Campbell served as major of the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry. He was appointed
Minister to Sweden by President
Abraham Lincoln
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in May 1864 and served until March 29, 1867. He declined the diplomatic mission to
Colombia in 1867. He located in
Philadelphia
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in 1867 and continued the practice of law. He died on his estate "Aeola," near
Wayne, Pennsylvania
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, in 1895. He was interred in
Woodlands Cemetery
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in Philadelphia.
See also
References
Retrieved on 2008-02-14
The Political Graveyard*
James H. Campbell Papers, 1861-1866 William L. Clements Library,
University of Michigan
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1820 births
1895 deaths
Burials at The Woodlands Cemetery
Politicians from Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Opposition Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
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Ambassadors of the United States to Sweden
Pennsylvania lawyers
People from Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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