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Campbell, John Wilson

jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 23, 1782, in Augusta county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1817 to 1827; and was United States judge for the district of Ohio. He died Sept. 24, 1833, in Delaware, Ohio.

CAMPBELL, JOSIAH A. P., lawyer, state legislator, jurist, author, was born March 2, 1830, in South Carolina. He has been a member of the Mississippi legislature and speaker of the house; circuit judge, supreme judge for eighteen years, and chief justice. He has been in the confederate service as a captain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel. He is the author of the Mississippi Revised Code of 1880, which emancipated married women from the disabilities of coverture.