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Up for sale "South Carolina Congressman" Robert B. Campbell Hand Written Letter dated 1859. 

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Robert Blair Campbell (died

July 12, 1862) was Carolina, brother of John Campbell, also of

South Carolina. Born in Marlboro County, South

Carolina, Campbell was educated by a private tutor. He attended

school in Fayetteville, North

Carolina, and was graduated from South Carolina College (now

the University of South

Carolina) at Columbia in 1809. He engaged in agricultural pursuits.

He was commissioned captain in the South Carolina Militia in 1814. He was an

unsuccessful candidate in 1820 for election to the Seventeenth Congress.

He served in the South Carolina Senate from

1821 to 1823, and again from 1830 to 1833. Campbell was elected as a Jackson

Republican to the Eighteenth Congress

(March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825). He was an unsuccessful candidate for

reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress

and for election in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress

and in 1830 to was elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third Congress

to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States

Representative Thomas B. Singleton. He was reelected as

Nullifier to the Twenty-fourth Congress

and served from February 27, 1834, to March 3, 1837. During the nullification

movement he was commissioned general of South Carolina troops in 1833. He moved

to Lowndes County, Alabama,

about 1840. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1840.

He was appointed on September 28, 1842, consul at Habana, Cuba, and served until July 22, 1850. From there, he

moved to San Antonio, Texas. He was

appointed on March 16, 1853, a commissioner for the United States to aid in

settlement of the disputed boundary line between Texas and Mexico. He was

appointed consul at London, England, and

served from August 3, 1854, to March 1861, when he was recalled. He moved

to Ealing, where he died July 12, 1862. He was interred in the

crypt of Kensington Church. 

"SC Congressman" Robert B Campbell Hand Written Letter

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