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James Campbell (Paducah, State Congressman, Lawyer and Judge)

b. 1798-05-01 d. 1880-07-30

About

Paducah, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Petersburg, Virginia, native. Son of James Campbell. Married to Mary Given Campbell in Livingston County on September 15, 1830. Father of Florence Campbell, Bettie Campbell, Caroline Campbell, and James Campbell. Studied law under William T. Barry. Attorney in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Moved to Salem, Kentucky in 1829. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the 1820s and 1830s. Served as the State Attorney. Formed a Railroad Company in Paducah with L. M. Flournoy and William Norton in 1852. Attorney in Paducah in 1860.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District 2, p. 121-22.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pendleton County Marriages, Film #000318176, p. 57-58.

History and Families, McCracken County, Kentucky, 1824-1989, McCracken County Genealogical-Historical Society, (Paducah, Ky: Turner Pub. Co, 1989), 25.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 130.

Find A Grave, "James Campbell (May 1, 1798 - July 30, 1880)," Memorial #81449040, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81449040 (accessed June 26, 2017).

Citation

Campbell, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200237 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (4)

Correspondence
Beriah Magoffin to John M. Johnson and Campbell
1861-08-22
Correspondence
G. T. Wood to Beriah Magoffin
1861-08-07
Correspondence
J. Campbell to Beriah Magoffin
1861-06-02
Correspondence
Woolfolk et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1861-08-22

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