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Lewis Davis Campbell Papers
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Preliminary inventory
Collection Synopsis
Provenance: The Ohio Historical Society acquired the Lewis Davis
Campbell papers from Mr. Arthur H, Blaker, of Portland, Oregon,
in May 1963. Keith A. Maneese processed the collection in May
1980.
Property rights: The Ohio Historical Society owns the property
rights to this collection.
Copyrights: Copyrights to this collection have - n- o - t - been dedicated
to the public. Consideration of the requirements of copyright is
the responsibility of the author and publisher.
Access: This collection is open under the rules and regulations
of the Ohio Historical Society.
Citation: Researchers are requested to cite collection name,
collection number and the Ohio Historical Society in all footnote
and bibliographic references.
Biographical sketch: Campbell, Lewis Davis. Born in Franklin,
Warren County, Ohio, August 9, 1811; attended the public schools;
apprenticed to learn the art of printing 1828- 1831; published a
Clay Whig newspaper in Hamilton, Ohio, 1831- 1835; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1835 and practiced in Hamilton until
1850; engaged in agricultural pursuits; unsuccessful candidate
for election in 1840, 1842, and 1844 to the Twenty- seventh,
Twenty- eighth, and Twenty- ninth Congresses; elected as a Whig to
the Thirty- first and to the three succeeding Congresses ( March 4,
1849- March 3, 1857); presented credentials as a Member- elect to
the Thirty- fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1857, to May
25, 1858, when he was succeeded by Clement L. Vallandigham, who
successfully contested the election; was an unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty- sixth Congress; served in
the Union Army during the Civil War as colonel of the Sixty- ninth
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 and 1862; resigned on
account of poor health; appointed by President Andrew Johnson as
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico on May
4, 1866, and served until June 16, 1867, wh. en he resigned; elected
to the State senate in 1869 and resigned in 1870; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty- second Congress ( March 4, 1871- March 3,
1873); was not a candidate for reee1ecti. on in 1.872 to the Forty-third
Congress; delegate to the third State constitutional conven-tion
in 1873; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Hamilton,
Butler County, Ohio, on November 26, 1882; interment in Greenwood
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Dictionary of the American Congress, 1774-
1949, ( 1950), p. 942.
Additional sources:
Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 111, ( 1929), pp. 461- 462.
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