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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Bowen CAMPBELL
(1807-1867)
CAMPBELL, William Bowen,
(cousin of Henry Bowen), a Representative from Tennessee; born near
Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tenn., February 1, 1807; attended
private schools; studied law in Abingdon and Winchester, Va.; was
admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Carthage,
Smith County, Tenn.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits and
banking; elected district attorney in 1831; member of the State
house of representatives in 1835 and 1836; captain of a company in
Trousdale’s regiment of Tennessee Mounted Volunteers in the
Florida War; mustered out January 14, 1837; elected as a Whig to
the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for
reelection to the Twenty-eighth Congress; elected colonel of the
First Tennessee Volunteers in the Mexican War June 3, 1846, and was
mustered out May 25, 1847; unanimously elected judge of the fourth
circuit of Tennessee and served from 1847 to 1850; served as
Governor of Tennessee from 1851 to 1853; declined renomination;
elected judge of the circuit court in 1857; appointed by President
Lincoln brigadier general of Volunteers June 30, 1862; resigned
January 26, 1863, on account of ill health; upon the readmission of
the State of Tennessee to representation was elected as a Unionist
to the Thirty-ninth Congress and served from July 24, 1866, to
March 3, 1867; resumed banking and agricultural pursuits; died near
Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn., August 19, 1867; interment in Cedar
Grove Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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