Alexander Campbell (American politician)

Alexander Campbell (1779 – November 5, 1857) was a National Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States Senate.

Alexander Campbell
United States Senator from Ohio
In office December 11, 1809 – March 4, 1813
Preceded by	Stanley Griswold
Succeeded by	Jeremiah Morrow
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Adams County
In office 1808 – December 12, 1809
Preceded by	New district
Succeeded by	William Russell Abraham Shepherd
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Adams and Scioto counties
In office 1807–1808
Preceded by	Philip Lewis James Scott Abraham Shepherd
Succeeded by	District eliminated
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Clermont County
In office 1819–1820
Preceded by	Henry Chapman John Shaw
Succeeded by	Thomas Morris
Member of the Ohio Senate from Brown County
In office 1822–1824
Preceded by	Nathaniel Beasley
Succeeded by	Unknown
Personal details
Born	1779 Frederick County, Virginia
Died	November 5, 1857 (aged 77–78) Ripley, Ohio
Political party	Democratic-Republican

Born in Frederick County, Virginia, Campbell moved to eastern Tennessee and then to Kentucky with his parents. After studying medicine at Transylvania University, Campbell moved to Ohio in 1803, settling in Adams County a year later. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1807 until 1809-12-12, when he resigned his position to be a U.S. Senator.[1] An early anti-slavery campaigner, he had been unsuccessful in his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 1808, but won a special election to the state's other seat a few months later and served from 1809 to 1813. He again served in the State House in 1819 and from 1832 to 1833, and in the Ohio State Senate from 1822 to 1824. He ran unsuccessfully for the governorship in 1826.

Ohio Presidential elector in 1820 for James Monroe.[2] Ohio Presidential elector in 1836 for William Henry Harrison.[3]