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Thompson Campbell

Union

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-02-1863 Union AD-08 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/12497675/thompson-campbell
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1811 in Ireland
Died: December 7, 1868 in San Francisco, CA

1843-1846: Secretary of State of Illinois
1847: Delegate, Illinois State Constitutional Convention
1853-1855: United States Land Commissioner for California

  • Not interred at the Laurel Hill Mound in Cypress Lawn Cemetery (Colma). Although originally buried at Laurel Hill, his remains were taken out of state when the cemetery closed.

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)