Alexander William Campbell (general)


Alexander William Campbell , was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was a lawyer in Tennessee before and after the war, mayor of Jackson, Tennessee, 1856, and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for governor of Tennessee in 1880.

Alexander William Campbell was born on June 4, 1828 in Nashville, Tennessee. After graduating from West Tennessee College, he studied law at Lebanon Law School. He was admitted to the bar of Tennessee and became a partner of future United States Senator and United States Supreme Court justice, Howell E. Jackson. He was elected mayor of Jackson, Tennessee in 1856.

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