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Rh chairman of the ways and means committee during his last term. He was chosen U. S. senator from Tennessee in 1811, but resigned in 1814, on being appointed secretary of the treasur)?. He was again elected to the senate in 1815, and served till April, 1818, when he was appointed minister to Russia. On his way to his post in June, 1818, he stopped at Copenhagen and endeavored to adjust the Danish spoliation claims. He returned to the United States in July, 1820, and in 1831 was a member of the French claims commission.

CAMPBELL, Helen Stuart, author, b. in Lockport, N. Y., 4 Julv, 1839. She attended school in Warren, R. J., and from 1850 until 1858 at Mrs. Cook's seminary, Bloomfield, N. J. She began to contribute sketches to the magazines and news- papers at an early age, and devoted her attention largely to housekeeping on a basis of scientific common sense. She has also studied carefully the problem of the poor in great cities and elsewhere, and has contributed valuable papers, drawn from personal experience, to current publications. Her novels are all written in an earnest spirit, and are yet full of touches of wit and pathos. From 1881 till 1884 she was literary editor of " The Continent " (Philadelphia). Her published books are : " The Ainslee Series " (New York, 1864-'7) ; " His Grand- mothers" (1877); "Six Sinners" (1878); "Unto t lie Third and Fourth Generation" (1880); "The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking" (1881); "The Problem of the Poor" (1882); " The American Girl's Home-Book of Work and Play " (1883) ; " Under Green Apple-Boughs " (1883) ; " The What-to-do Club" (Boston. 1884): "Mrs. Hern- don's Income " (1885) ; and " Miss Melinda's Oppor- tunity" (1886). She began in the New York " Trib- une," in October, 1886, a series of articles on the working-women of New York.

CAMPBELL, Hugh George, naval officer, b. in South Carolina in 1760; d. in Washington. D. C, 11 Nov., 1820. In 1775 he volunteered on board the first man-of-war commissioned by the council of South Carolina. He was made master com- mander, 27 July, 1799, and captain, 16 Oct., 1800. He served in the Mediterranean in 1804- '5, and in 1812 commanded some gun-boats in St. Mary's river during an insurrection against the Spanish rule in Florida.

CAMPBELL, Jabez Pitt, A. M. E. bishop, b. in Slaughter's Neck, Delaware, 6 Feb., 1815 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 9 Aug., 1891. He was of Afri- can descent, but was born free, and fled to Phila- delphia in 1828. He was licensed to preach in 1837, and in 1856 he was elected publisher and editor of the " Christian Recorder," the organ of the African Methodist Episcopal church. He was elected a bishop in 1864. and assigned the task of organizing the church work in Louisiana and California, visit- ing the last-named state in 1865. In 1876 he was sent as a delegate to the Conference of the Wesleyan connection of England. He was presiding bishop of the third district of the African Methodist Epis- copal church, was pi'esident of the board of trustees of Wilberforce university, and also of the educa- tional department of the denomination to which he belonged. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him bv Wilberforce university in 1871.

CAMPBELL, James, jurist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Sept., 1812; d. there, 27 Jan., 1893. After receiving a thorough education he was admitted, in 1834, to the Philadelphia bar, where he soon took high rank. He was a judge of the court of common pleas from 1842 till 1850, became attorney- general of the state in 1852, and on 4 March, 1853, was made postmaster-general bv President Pierce, serving through the entire administration. In 1862 he was defeated foi' the U. S. senate.

CAMPBELL, James Valentine, jurist, b. in Builalo, N. Y., 25 Feb., 1823; d. in Detroit, Mich., 26 March, 1890. He was graduated at St. Paul's college. College Point, L. I., in 1841, studied law in Detroit, and was admitted to practice in 1844. He was a master of chancery in the state and fed- eral courts, and when a supreme court was estab- lished in Michigan, in 1857, was elected one of the associate justices. During nearly thirty years' ser- vice on the bench he rendered valuable decisions, some of which were important contributions to the body of the law. In 1859, when the law de- partment in the University of Michigan was insti- tuted, Judge Campbell was given a chair in the law-school, and lectured for twenty-five years. In 1845 he edited Walker's " Chancery Reports." He was politically a wliig until the whigs were merged in the republican party in 1854, when he joined the republicans, but condemned, in some instances, the expansion of executive and judicial powers by the fetleral authorities under republican administra- tion. He devoted his leisui-e to literary and his- torical studies, and gave special attention to the history of Michigan and the northwest territory. In 1876 he published " Outlines of the Political History of Michigan " (Detroit). Among his con- tributions to the press are essays on the polity of the Protestant Episcopal church and on questions in jurisprudence, and many poems depicting the life of the Michigan pioneers.

CAMPBELL, Jesse H., clergyman, b. in Mc- intosh county, Ga., 10 Feb., 1807. He is one of the most laborious and useful preachers in his native state. His chief literary work is " Georgia Bap- tists — Historical and Biographical."

CAMPBELL, John, publisher, b. in Scotland in 1653; d. in Boston, Mass., in March, 1728. He was a Boston bookseller, and on 24 April, 1704, issued the &ldquo;Boston News-Letter,&rdquo; the first permanent newspaper published in North America. He was postmaster of Boston for many years, ending with 1718, and was for several years justice of the peace for Suffolk co.

CAMPBELL, John, British author, b. in Edin- burgh, 8 March, 1708; d. 28 Dec, 1775. He was intended for the law, but at the age of twenty- eight entered on a literary career that ended only with his life. Those of his books that appeared prior to 1742 were published anonymously. From 1755 until his death he was agent of the British government for the province of Georgia. His works relating to this country are " Concise His- tory of Spanish America " (1741); "Voyages and Travels, from Columbus to Anson" (1744); "New Sugar Islands in the West Indies " and " Trade of Great Britain to America" (1772). He also pub- lished " Lives of the English Admirals " (1744) ; " A Survey of the Present State of Europe " (1750) ; " A Political Survey of Great Britain " (1774) ; and nu- merous other works.

CAMPBELL, John, British soldier, b. in Strachur, Scotland ; d. early in 1806. He entered the army in June, 1745, as lieutenant of Loudon's Highlanders, served through the Scotch rebellion, and made the campaign in Flanders in 1747. He was made captain, 1 Oct., 1747, appointed to the 42d Highlanders, 9 April, 1756, and wounded in the attack on Ticonderoga in 1758. He became major of the 17th foot, 11 July, 1759, lieutenant- colonel in the army, 1 Feb., 1762, and commanded this regiment in the expeditions against Martinico and Havana. He became lieutenant-colonel of the 37th foot, 1 May, 1773, and returned to America