Thomas Jefferson Campbell
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Thomas Jefferson Campbell was an American politician who represented {{ushr|Tennessee|4|Tennessee's fourth district]] in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Rhea County, Tennessee in 1786, and he attended the public schools. He was assistant inspector general to Major General Cole's division of the East Tennessee Militia from September 14, 1813 to March 12, 1814. He was clerk of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819, in 1821, and from 1825 to 1831. He was a member of the body itself from 1833 to 1837.
He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1841 to March 3, 1843. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1842 for re-election to the Twenty-eighth Congress.
He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses. He served from December 7, 1847 until his death in Washington, D.C. on April 13, 1850. He was interred at Calhoun, Tennessee.
This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
