The Revised Code Of The Statute Laws Of The State Of Mississippi: As Adopted At January Session, A.d. 1871, Part 1871...
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The Revised Code Of The Statute Laws Of The State Of Mississippi: As Adopted At January Session, A.D. 1871, Part 1871
Mississippi, Josiah A. Patterson Campbell, Amos Lovering
Amos Randall Johnston
Alcorn & Fisher, 1871
Law; General; Law; Law / General
Josiah Campbell, jurist, politician and military officer, served in the state legislature and was Speaker of the House and was elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress.
Background
Josiah A. Patterson Campbell was born on March 2, 1830; of Scotch and Irish descent, the son of the Rev. Robert B. Campbell, a Presbyterian minister, and of his wife, Mary Patterson. He was born in the Waxhaw settlement, Abbeville district, South Carolina, United States.
Education
Josiah was educated at Camden Academy and Davison College, North Carolina, United States.
Career
Upon leaving college Campbell joined his father's family in Madison County, Mississippi, where they had settled in 1845. He then read law, and at the age of seventeen was admitted to the bar at Kosciusko, Mississippi. He there practised his profession until 1865, except during the war period. At the age of twenty-one he was elected to the legislature on the Democratic ticket. As the practise of law was more congenial to him than politics, he retired from public office at the expiration of his legislative term. In 1859 he was again elected to the legislature, and became speaker of the House. When his state seceded from the Union in 1861, he was chosen one of the seven delegates from Mississippi to the Confederate constitutional convention at Montgomery and thus became a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy. In March 1862 he entered the Confederate army, and was chosen captain of Company K, which became part of the 40th Regiment, and when that regiment was organized at Meridian, Mississippi, he was made lieutenant-colonel. He commanded his regiment in the battles of Iuka and Corinth, being wounded in the latter engagement. He rejoined his command at Grenada and went with it to Vicksburg, where he received notice from the secretary of war that he had been assigned to the military court of Gen. Polk's corps, with the rank of colonel. He served in this capacity until the end of the war. He was then elected circuit judge of his district, to fill an unexpired term, and was reelected in 1866 for the full term. But his inability to take the test oath required by the federal government forced him to retire from the bench in 1870. He was elected professor of law at the University of Mississippi, but declined this position and opened a law office at Canton, Mississippi. A short time later he formed a partnership with Judge S. S. Calhoun in the same town, and this relationship lasted until Campbell received an appointment to the supreme bench of the state. Meantime, at the request of Gov. Alcorn, he served on a commission which prepared the Code of 1871. When the Democratic party resumed control of the state government in 1876, Gov. Stone appointed Campbell to the supreme bench for a term of nine years. He was then reappointed by Gov. Lowry for a second term, which gave him a tenure of eighteen years during a third of which time he was chief justice. At the request of the state legislature he also prepared the Code of 1880, which was almost wholly in force for more than a generation. Responding to a request of the legislature of Mississippi, he delivered before that body (1890) a memorial address on the "Life and Character of Jefferson Davis. "
At the time of his death, Campbell was the sole survivor of the forty-nine signers of the Confederate constitution.
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In this address on the "Life and Character of Jefferson Davis" he said: "I have never blamed a Northern man for supporting his country, and before the bar of justice and fairness, I demand the same recognition for myself and countrymen in supporting ours . This is our native earth, and rights to which we are born were in jeopardy. "
Membership
He was a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy.
Personality
He was a man of imposing appearance, with a courtly bearing that befitted the high judicial position which he filled with dignity and honor. He was about six feet two in height, with erect carriage, a sonorous voice, expressive blue eyes, a high forehead, and an intellectual, bearded face.
Connections
Campbell was married, May 23, 1850, to Eugenia E. , daughter of Rev. W. W. and Nancy (Dotson) Nash, of Kosciusko, Mississippi.