Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell

Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell (March 2, 1830 – January 10, 1917) was an American politician. He served as a member of the Provisional C.S. Congress from Mississippi, 1861 to 1862.

Early life and career

Campbell was born in Camden, South Carolina. He moved to Mississippi and served in the state legislature in 1851 and 1859. He was a President pro tempore of the Provisional C.S. Congress in 1861 and 1862, a colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, and the Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court from 1891 to 1894.

External links

Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell at The Political Graveyard

Political offices
Preceded by Robert Barnwell	*President pro tempore* of the Confederate Congress**	Succeeded by none

Signatories of the Confederate States Constitution

Congress President	Howell Cobb

South Carolina	Robert Rhett Christopher Memminger Porcher Miles James Chesnut, Jr. Robert Barnwell William Boyce Laurence Keitt Thomas Withers

Georgia	Robert Toombs Francis Bartow Martin Crawford Alexander Stephens Benjamin Hill Thomas Cobb Eugenius Nisbet Augustus Wright Augustus Kenan

Florida	Jackson Morton Patton Anderson James Owens

Alabama	Richard Walker Robert Smith Colin McRae William Chilton Stephen Hale David Lewis Thomas Fearn, Jr. Gill Shorter Jabez Curry

Mississippi	Alexander Clayton James Harrison William Barry William Wilson Walker Brooke Wiley Harris Josiah Campbell

Louisiana	John Perkins, Jr. Alexandre de Clouet Charles Conrad Duncan Kenner Henry Marshall Edward Sparrow

Texas	John Hemphill Thomas Waul John Reagan Williamson Oldham Louis Wigfall John Gregg William Ochiltree

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