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CAMPBELL, Lewis Davis, diplomatist, was bora at Franklin, Warren county, Ohio, Aug. 9, 1811. When quite young he became assistant editor of the Cincinnati Gazette. In 1831 he re- moved to Hamilton, Ohio, where he edited a political paper. In 1836 he was admitted to the bar, and established himself in the practice of his profession at Hamilton. In 1848 he was elected a representative to the 31st Congress, and was three times re-elected. He claimed to have been again elected to the 3oth Congress, but his seat was contested, and the house of representatives decided in favor of his opponent, C. L. VaUan- digham. At the outbreak of the civil war he volunteered in the Federal army, and served one year with the rank of colonel, resigning on account of ill-health. He was appointed U. S. minister to Mexico by President Johnson, May 4, 1866, but he •did not reach that country until November, re- maining in the United States to attend the union convention, Philadelphia, and the soldiers' con- vention in Cleveland. In 1868 he returned from Mexico, and in 1870 was elected a representative to the 42d Congress. He died Nov. 28, 1882.

CAMPBELL, Richard, soldier, was born in the Virginia valley. In February, 1776, he was com- missioned captain, and later served at Pittsburg as major under Col. John Gibson. In 1778 he was on the expedition led by Mcintosh against the Indians in Ohio, and the following year led a relief party to Fort Laurens, which garrison he commanded until the evacuation. Sliortly after joining General Greene with a regiment of Vir- ginia regulars he served with the rank of lieuten- ant-colonel at Guilford, Ilobkirk's Hill, Ninety- Six, and Eutaw Springs, where he received a mortal wound while leading his regiment in the final charge. He died at Eutaw Springs, S. C, Sept. 8, 1781.

CAMPBELL, Robert, soldier, was born in Au^asta county, Va., May 25, 1755; brother of Col. Andrew Campbell. He removed to Holston, Va., in 1771, and in 1774 served in Christian's campaign. He was in the battle of liong Island Flats of Holston in July, 1776, and in the fall of that year volunteered on Christian's Cherokee campaign. He was an ensign at the battle of King's mountain, Oct. 7, 1780, and served con- spicuously. In December following he was an adjutant to his brother. He served long as a colonel of a regiment, and for nearly forty years was a magistrate of W^ashington coimty, Va. He is the author of a manuscript diary, and of an account of the battle of King's mountain, pub- lished in the Holston Intelligencer in October, 1810, both of great historical value, and much quoted in Draper's Kiiu/s Monntain and its Heroes. In 1825 he removed to Knox county Tenn., where he died, Dec. 27, 1831.

CAMPBELL, Thomas J., educator, was born in New York city, April 29, 1848. He graduated at the College of St. Fi-ancis Xavier in 1867, and entered the Society of Jesus. He was a professor of belles lettres and rhetoric at St. John's college and at the College of St. Francis Xavier and was ordained priest in Belgium in 1880. He was president of St. John's college, 1885-'89, and 1896-'99, and became provincial of the New York- Maryland province in 1889.

CAMPBELL, Thompson, representative, was born in Pennsylvania, received his education in his native state, and studied law. When quite young he engaged in mining in Galena, 111., and became identified with state politics, being elected secretary of state by the Democrats. In 1850 he was elected to represent the Galena dis- trict in the 32d Congress. Soon after the expira- tion of his term in 1853 he removed to California, and was appointed by President Pierce, land conr- missioner. He died in California, Dec. 7, 1868.

CAMPBELL, Timothy J., representative, was born in county Cavan, Ireland, in 1840. He came to the United States when five years old, and attended the public schools in the city of New York. He learned the printing business, and worked on the New York Times, Express, Tri- bune and Herald. He was employed as a printer on the Herald when he was nominated in 1867 for the state assembly by the democracy of his district. He was elected to the assembly from 1868 to 1873, inclusive, and again in 1875. He studied law with Judge Flanagan, and was ad- mitted to the bar in November, 1869. In 1875 he was elected justice of the fifth district civil court in New York city, and served six years in this capacity. In 1883 he was returned to the state assembly. Before his term expired a vacancy occurred in the eighth congressional district of New York, by the appointment of S. S. Cox as minister to Turkey, and Mr. Campbell was nominated and elected to the 49th Congress to fill the vacancy. He was re-elected to the 50th, 52d and 53d congresses.

CAMPBELL, William, soldier, was born in Augusta county, Va., in 1745. In 1767 he settled in the Holston valley, where he was justice of the peace and captain of militia. He partici- pated in the campaign led by Colonel Christian against the Shawnees, and in 1775 joined Patrick Henry's regiment. He assisted in compelling Lord Dunmore's evacuation of Gwynne's Island, when, his liome and property being endangered by threatened raids of tlie Clierokees, he resigned from the army, and was appointed lieutenant- colonel of .state militia. He was one of the com- missioners who fixed the boundary line between Virginia and the Cherokee country in 1778. In 1779 he was actively employed against the Tories