Biography

08/10/1823 - 04/15/1895

CAMPBELL, Charles Thomas, a Representative from Franklin County; born, August 10, 1823 in Franklin County, Pa.; attended, Marshall College (now Franklin and Marshall College); captain, 11th United States Infantry (1846-1848, Mexican-American War); colonel, 43rd Regiment, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (1861-1862, Civil War); colonel, 57th Pennsylvania Infantry, United States Army (1862-1863, Civil War); brigadier general and commander, District of Wisconsin, Department of the Northwest (1863-1866, Civil War); distiller; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representative to the 1853 term; inspector, Indian agencies; stage line operator; hotel proprietor; elected, mayor, Scotland, SD; died, April 15, 1895 in Scotland, Bon Homme County, South Dakota; interred, Yankton City Cemetery, Yankton, Yankton County, South Dakota.