Robert Campbell (New York politician)

Robert Campbell ( born May 1, 1808 in Bath, Steuben County, New York, † July 16, 1870 ) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the son of Robert Campbell ( † 1849), who immigrated and then settled in 1794 by Glasgow ( Scotland) in the United States in Bath.

Career

Robert Campbell attended the Geneva Academy and then the local college. Then he took an apprenticeship with a legal practitioner was admitted to the bar and then began to practice in Bath. He was married to Frances Fowler. The couple had two sons, Clarence and Frank Campbell.

Robert was in 1846 as a delegate to the Democratic party in the Constituent Assembly of New York, but moved in 1848 to the Free Soil Party and later the Republican Party. Between 1859 and 1862 he held the office of Lieutenant Governor of New York under Governor Edwin D. Morgan.

He was buried in Grove Cemetery in Bath (New York). His house, better known as the Campbell - Rumsey House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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