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Campbell, William Bowen

soldier, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 1, 1807, in Sumner county, Tenn.

He was chosen attorney-general for the fourth district; was elected to the Tennessee legislature in 1835; and raised a company and served as captain in the Creek and Florida wars of 1836. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1837 to 1843; in 1844 was elected major-general of militia, and was colonel of the first regiment of Tennessee volunteers in the Mexican war. From 1850 to 1853 he was governor of Tennessee, and in 1857 was chosen, by a unanimous vote of the legislature, judge of the circuit court of Tennessee. In 1862 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the union army. He was again elected a representative to the thirty-ninth congress. He died Aug. 19, 1867, in Lebanon, Tenn.