[Barnes, William Horatio]. Lewis, D. Campbell, of Ohio. [Washington: N.p., 1880?]
CAMPBELL, Lewis Davis, (uncle of James Edwin Campbell), a Representative from Ohio; 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, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Congresses and as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Thirty-fourth Congress); presented credentials as a Republican 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 election in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; served in the Union Army as colonel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 and 1862; appointed by President Andrew Johnson as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico on May 4, 1866, and served until June 16, 1867, when 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 reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; delegate to the third State constitutional convention in 1873; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, on November 26, 1882; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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[ Top ][Barnes, William Horatio]. Lewis, D. Campbell, of Ohio. [Washington: N.p., 1880?]
Campbell, Lewis Davis. Americanism. [Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1856].
------. Kansas and Nebraska--Georgia and Ohio--free labor and slave labor. [Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1854].
------. Railroads for the West--"Lands for the landless"--and "Virginia abstractions". Speech of Hon. L. D. Campbell ... in the House of Representatives, March 7, 1854, in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the bill from the Senate to aid the territory of Minnesota in constructing a railroad for military, postal and other purposes. [Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1854].
------. Speech of Hon. L. D. Campbell, of Ohio, on southern aggression, the purposes of the union, and the comparative effects of slavery and freedom: with a facsimile of the signatures to the articles of association of the Continental Congress. Washington: Printed and for sale by Buell & Blanchard, 1850.
------. Speech of Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, in reply to Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, delivered in the House of Representatives, February 28, 1855. Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1855.
------. Speech of Hon. Lewis D. Campbell .. on the Gardiner and Galphin claims, vindication of Secretary Corwin. [Washington: N.p., 1852].
------. Supremacy of the constitution and laws. [Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1856].
Van Horne, William E. "Lewis D. Campbell and the Know Nothing Party in Ohio." Ohio History 76 (Autumn 1967): 202-21.