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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeThomas Jefferson CAMPBELL
(1786-1850)
CAMPBELL, Thomas
Jefferson, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Rhea
County, Tenn., in 1786; attended the public schools; assistant
inspector general to Major General Cole’s division of the
East Tennessee Militia from September 25, 1813, to March 12, 1814;
clerk of the State house of representatives 1817-1819, 1821, and
1825-1831, and a member of that body 1833-1837; elected as a Whig
to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth
Congress; Clerk of the House of Representatives in the Thirtieth
and Thirty-first Congresses and served from December 7, 1847, until
his death in Washington, D.C., April 13, 1850; interment at
Calhoun, McMinn County, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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