John P. Campbell, Jr.

John Pierce Campbell Jr. ( * December 8, 1820 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, † October 29, 1888 ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Campbell learned a good basic education. After a subsequent law degree in 1841 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession in Lexington (Missouri ). Between 1848 and 1852 he was also a member of the House of Representatives from Missouri. He then returned to Hopkinsville, where he worked in agriculture. Politically, he joined the short-lived American Party.

In the congressional elections of 1854 he was in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin E. Grey on March 4, 1855. Since he resigned in 1856 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1857. This was marked by the tensions prior to the Civil War.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Campbell rose in addition to its involvement in agriculture in the railway and industrial business one. In 1870 he became president of the railway company Henderson & Nashville Railroad. Then he founded the Mastodon Coal & Iron Co. During his last years he devoted himself to his extensive land holdings. John Campbell died on 29 October 1888 in his hometown of Hopkinsville.