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McKinley, Jr., although he ran 9000 votes ahead of his a.s.soeiates on the state ticket. In 1895 he was again a candidate for the office of governor of Ohio and was defeated by Asa S. Bushnell.

CAMPBELL, James H., diplomatist, was born at Williamsport, Pa., Feb. 8. 1820. He received a classical education and was graduated at the Carlisle (Pa.) laTv school in 1841, gaining admis- sion to the bar in the same year. In 1844 he was a member of the national Whig convention at Baltimore. In 1854 he was elected a represen- tative to the 34th Congress, and was afterwards elected to the 36th and 37th congresses. In 1864 President Lincoln appointed him United States minister to Sweden, where he remained until November, 1866, when he was appointed minister to the United States of Colombia. Upon reaching home, however, he declined the mission, and re- sumed his law practice. He died April 12, 1895.

CAMPBELL, James Valentine, jurist, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 25, 1823, son of Henry Munroe and Lois (Bushnell) Campbell. In his infancy his parents removed to Detroit, Mich. He was graduated at St. Paul's college. Long Island, N. Y., in 1841, and was admitted to the bar in 184-1. He was master of chancery in the state and federal courts, was elected to the supreme court of Michigan in 1857, and re-elected in 1863. He filled a chair in the law school of the Univer- sity of Michigan from 1859 to 1884, and was in- strumental in furthering the cause of education throughout the state. He edited Walker's Chan- cery Reports (1845), and published Outlines of the Political History of Michigan (1876). He was a frequent contributor of historical sketches and poems describing pioneer life in the west, and of essays on questions in jurisprudence, and on the polity of the Protestant Episcopal church to periodical literature. He died at Detroit, Mich.. March 26, 1890.

CAMPBELL, Jesse H., clergyman, was born in Mcintosh county, Ga., Feb. 10, 1807, son of Jesse H. Campbell. He was educated at Sun- bury under a private tutor, and at the University of Georgia. He began to preach at the age of seventeen, and was ordained to the Baptist min- istry in 1830. He preached at Macon, Ga., and later at various places throughout the south. For five years he was the agent for foreign missions in Georgia, and afterwards became an evangelist for the state at large. During the civil war he was a voluntary missionary in the array. He was a member of the board of trustees of Mercer university, and was instrumental in establishing colleges for women at Lumpkin and Cuthbert, and the Georgia deaf and dumb institution at Cave Spring. He is the author of Georgia Bap- tists: Historical and Biographical. He died at Columbus, Ga., April 16, 1888.

CAMPBELL, John, publisher, was born in Scotland about 1653. He was a bookseller on Corniiill, Boston, and was appointed postmaster of Boston and New England about 1702. On April 24, 1704, he began the pubUcation of the weekly News Letter, the first successful paper in America. In the great fire of 1711 his establish- ment was burned. He was removed from the po.stoffice in 1718. In 1727-28 he was president of the Scots' charitable association which he had joined in 1684. He had two daughters: Sarah, who was married to James Bowdoin, and Eliza- beth, who became the \\\ie of William Foye, both his sons-in-law being councillors of Massa- chusetts. He died in Boston, Mass., in March, 1728.

CAMPBELL, John, army surgeon, was born in New York in 1821; son of Archibald and Mary Campbell. He was commissioned assistant- surgeon in the U.S army, Dec. 13, 1847; captain and assistant surgeon, Dec. 13, 1852; major and surgeon, May 21, 1861; lieutenant-colonel, Nov. 8, 1877; colonel, Dec. 7, 1884; and was retired Sept. 16, 1835. Hi^ son, Joseph Randolph (born in Delphi, Ohio, March 12, 1872, died at Chelsea naval hospital. Mass.. May 30. 1898), was grad- uated from Annapolis in 1891 and was ensign on the ram Katalidin at the time of his death.

CAMPBELL, John Allen, soldier, was born in Salem, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1835. He began his busi- ness life as a printer, and in 1861 he entered the Federal army as 2d lieutenant of volunteers. He was promoted major and assistant adju- tant-general, Oct. 27, 1862, and in 1865 was given the brevet rank of brigadier-general of volunteers '"for courage in the field and marked ability and fidelity " at Red Mountain, Shiloh, Perrysville, Murfreesboro, and through the At- lanta campaign. After being mustered out on Sept. 1, 1866, he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he became editorially connected with the Leader. In October, 1867, he joined the regular army, received the commission of 2d lieutenant in the 5th artillery, and was at once bre vetted 1st lieutenant, captain, major and lieutenant-colonel. He served on the staff of General Schofield, and later when that officer served as secretary of war in President Johnson's cabinet. Colonel Campbell was his assistant secretary. In 18G9 President Grant made him the first governor of the terri- tory of Wyoming, to which office he was re-ap- pointed in 1873. In 1875 he was made third assistant secretary of state, and served in the state department at "Washington up to the time of his death, which occvu'red July 14, 1880.

CAMPBELL, John Archibald, jurist, was born at Washington, Ga., June 24. 1811; son of Col. Duncan G. Campbell, and grand.son of a revolutionary soldier on the staff of General