Thomas Mitchell Campbell
| Thomas Mitchell Campbell | |
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| 24th Governor of Texas | |
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In office January 15, 1907 – January 17, 1911 |
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| Lieutenant | Asbury Bascom Davidson |
| Preceded by | S. W. T. Lanham |
| Succeeded by | Oscar Branch Colquitt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 22, 1856 Rusk, Texas |
| Died | April 1, 1923 (aged 66) Galveston, Texas |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Fannie Irene Bruner Campbell |
| Parents |
Thomas Duncan and Rachel Moore Campbell |
| Profession | Five children |
Thomas Duncan and Rachel Moore Campbell
Thomas Mitchell Campbell (April 22, 1856 – April 1, 1923) was the 24th Governor of Texas from 1907 to 1911.
Campbell was born in Rusk in Cherokee County in East Texas, the son of Thomas Duncan and Rachel (Moore) Campbell. He attended school at Rusk and entered Trinity University in 1873 to study law. He was unable to support himself and withdrew after a year. Campbell went to work in the Gregg County clerk's office and continued his studies at night. In 1878, he was admitted to the Texas bar. In the same year, he married Fannie Irene Bruner of Shreveport, Louisiana, whose father, William Bruner, was a Mississippi captain in the Confederate States Army and thereafter a landholder and city comptroller in Shreveport.
Campbell practiced law in Longview until he became involved with the troubled International-Great Northern Railroad in 1889. He became its court-appointed receiver in 1891 and moved his family to Palestine. The next year, after lifting the line from bankruptcy, he remained in Palestine as the general manager of the railroad.
Campbell distrusted monopolistic big business and sympathized with trade unions. He shared many of the reformist political views of former Texas governor James Stephen Hogg. In 1897, Campbell resigned from the railroad and became active in Democratic Party politics. At Hogg's urging, he decided to run for governor.
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