Lewis D. Campbell
| Lewis Davis Campbell | |
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Engraving by H.B. Hall
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| United States Minister to Mexico | |
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In office 1866–1867 |
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| President | Andrew Johnson |
| Preceded by | Robert W. Shufelt |
| Succeeded by | Marcus Otterbourg |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 2nd district |
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In office March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853 |
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| Preceded by | David Fisher |
| Succeeded by | John Scott Harrison |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 3rd district |
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In office March 4, 1853 – May 25, 1858 |
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| Preceded by | Hiram Bell |
| Succeeded by | Clement Vallandigham |
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In office March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873 |
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| Preceded by | Robert C. Schenck |
| Succeeded by | John Quincy Smith |
| Member of the Ohio Senate | |
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In office 1869–1870 |
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| Personal details | |
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August 9, 1811 Franklin, Warren County, Ohio |
| Died | November 26, 1882 (aged 71) Hamilton, Ohio |
| Resting place | Greenwood Cemetery |
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Lewis Davis Campbell (August 9, 1811 – November 26, 1882) was a U.S. Representative for Ohio. Over his political career he was elected as a Whig, Republican, Know Nothing, and Democrat.
Campbell was born in Franklin, Warren County, Ohio. His education was in the local public schools. He was apprenticed to learn the art of printing from 1828 to 1831, and he was afterward assistant editor of the Cincinnati Gazette. He published a Henry Clay Whig newspaper in Hamilton, Ohio, from 1831 to 1835 (The Hamilton Intelligencer). Meanwhile, he read the law and was admitted to the bar in 1835. He practiced law in Hamilton until 1850, while he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He married Jane Reily on January 5, 1836 in Butler County, Ohio.
He was a director and secretary of the Hamilton and Rossville Hydraulic Company, formed in 1841 for the purpose of building a canal through Hamilton to provide water power to local companies. He was an incorporator and president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company. The railroad was constructed between 1846 and 1852.
He ran unsuccessfully as a Whig candidate for election in 1840, 1842, and 1844 to the 27th, 28th, and 29th Congresses. He was elected as a Whig in 1848 from Ohio's 2nd District to the 31st Congress and was re-elected in 1850. Following redistricting after the 1850 census, he found himself in Ohio's 3rd District but was successful in being again elected as a Whig in 1852. With the collapse of the Whigs, he ran as an Opposition Party candidate in 1854 and was elected to the 34th Congress. He became chairman of the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means.
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