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George Washington Campbell

CAMPBELL, George Washington, statesman, born in Tennessee in 1768; died in Nashville, Tennessee, 17 February, 1848. He was graduated at Princeton in 1794. He took his seat as a representative in congress in 1803, and remained till 1809, serving as CAMPBELL chairman of the ways and means committee during his last term. He was chosen United States senator from Tennessee in 1811, but resigned in 1814, on being appointed secretary of the treasury. He was again elected to the senate in 1815, and served till April, 1818, when he was appointed minister to Russia. On his way to his post in June, 1818, he stopped at Copenhagen and endeavored to adjust the Danish spoliation claims, he returned to the United States in July, 1820, and in 1831 was a member of the French claims commission.

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