William W. Campbell (New York)

William W. Campbell ( born June 10, 1806 Cherry Valley, New York, † September 7, 1881 ) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William W. Campbell was born about six years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Cherry Valley. In the following years he attended community schools and graduated in 1827 from Union College in Schenectady. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1831 and then began to practice in New York City. In 1841 he was appointed master on the New York Court of Chancery. Then he worked as a Commissioner in Bankruptcy. Politically, he was a member of the American Party.

In the congressional elections of 1844 Campbell was in the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hamilton Fish on March 4, 1845. Since he gave up for reelection two years later, retired after March 3, 1847 from the Congress.

Between 1849 and 1855 he was a judge at the Superior Court in New York City. Then he moved in December 1855 back to Cherry Valley. Between 1857 and 1865 he was a judge at the Supreme Court for the sixth district of New York. Campbell was a writer who wrote historical works. He died on 7 September 1881 in Cherry Valley, and was then buried in Cherry Valley Cemetery.