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George W. Campbell
4thUnited States Minister to Russia
In office February 7, 1819 – July 8, 1820
President	James Monroe
Preceded by	William Pinkney
Succeeded by	Henry Middleton
United States Senator fromTennessee
In office October 10, 1815 – April 20, 1818
Preceded by	Joseph Anderson
Succeeded by	John Eaton
In office October 8, 1811 – February 11, 1814
Preceded by	Jenkin Whiteside
Succeeded by	Jesse Wharton
5thUnited States Secretary of the Treasury
In office February 9, 1814 – October 5, 1814
President	James Madison
Preceded by	William Jones(Acting)
Succeeded by	Alexander J. Dallas
Associate Justice of theTennessee Supreme Court
In office 1809–1811
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromTennessee's2nd district
In office March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1809
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Robert Weakley
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromTennessee'sat-large district
In office March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	George Washington Campbell (1769-02-09)February 9, 1769 Tongue,Sutherlandshire,Scotland,Kingdom of Great Britain
Died	February 17, 1848(1848-02-17) (aged 79) Nashville,Tennessee,U.S.
Political party	Democratic-Republican
Spouse	Harriot Stoddert
Education	Princeton University (BA)

George Washington Campbell (February 9, 1769 – February 17, 1848) was an American statesman who served as aU.S. Representative,Senator,Tennessee Supreme Court Justice,U.S. Ambassador to Russia and the 5thUnited States Secretary of the Treasury from February to October 1814.

Born in the village ofTongue,Sutherland on the north coast ofScotland, Campbell immigrated as a young boy toNorth Carolina in 1772 with his parents. George was the youngest son of Dr. Archibald Campbell and Elizabeth Mackay Matheson Campbell, who settled on Crooked Creek in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.^[1] After teaching school in his early 20's, he entered the junior class at the College of New Jersey (which is nowPrinceton University) in 1792.^[1] He graduated in 1794 and began studyinglaw.^[2] He was admitted to thebar in North Carolina and began practicing inKnoxville, Tennessee in 1798.^[1] He owned slaves.^[3]

Campbell was elected to theUnited States House of Representatives as the Representative fromTennessee's at-large congressional district in 1803. He served in the House from 1805 to 1809, in the8th,9th, and10th Congresses. During the 10th Congress, he was the chairman of theWays and Means Committee. He was also one of theHouse managers appointed in 1804 to prosecute the case in theimpeachment trial ofJohn Pickering, judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, and, later that year, he was also appointed a House manager forthe impeachment trial ofSamuel Chase,associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

He left Congress in 1809 to become judge of theTennessee Supreme Court, serving until 1811. On leaving Congress he moved his residence from Knoxville to Nashville, Tennessee.^[4] In July 1812 he married Harriet Stoddert (1788-1848) in Prince George's County, Maryland.^[5] Harriet was from a prominent Maryland family, the daughter ofBenjamin Stoddert, the first Secretary of the United States Navy.

Campbell served as aUnited States Senator from Tennessee twice, once from 1811 to 1814, having been elected to fill the seat ofJenkin Whiteside, and again from 1815 to 1818. His first service was from October 8, 1811, to February 11, 1814, when he resigned to accept appointment as theUnited States Secretary of the Treasury. He returned to the Senate on October 10, 1815. He served as the first chairman of theSenate Finance Committee and its predecessor from December 4, 1815, until his resignation from the Senate on April 20, 1818; on this occasion to accept appointment asUnited States Ambassador to Russia, a position he held from 1818 to 1821. Three of the couple's four young children died in April 1819, and Campbell wrote Secretary of StateJohn Quincy Adams asking to be recalled and return home. He was not recalled, however, until 1820.^[1] Campbell served as a member of the French Spoliation Claims Commission in 1831.

AppointedSecretary of the Treasury on his forty-fifth birthday byJames Madison, Campbell faced national financial disorder brought on by theWar of 1812. Congress had failed to recharter theFirst Bank of the United States after its charter expired in 1811, and appropriations for thewar were unavailable, so Campbell had to convince Americans to buy governmentbonds. He was forced to meet lenders' terms, selling government bonds at exorbitantinterest rates. In September 1814 the British occupiedWashington, D.C., and thecredit of the government was lowered even further. He was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise money through additional bond sales and he resigned that October after only eight months in office, disillusioned and in bad health.

Campbell died in 1848 and is buried atNashville City Cemetery inNashville, Tennessee.

• List of United States senators born outside the United States

• United States Congress."George W. Campbell (id: C000083)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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