George Washington Campbell (9 February 1769 – 17 February 1848) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Tennessee's at-large district from 4 March 1803 to 3 March 1805 and from its 2nd district from 4 March 1805 to 3 March 1809 (preceding Robert Weakley); US Secretary of the Treasury from 9 February to 5 October 1814 (succeeding William Jones and preceding Alexander J. Dallas); and US Senator from Tennessee from 8 October 1811 to 11 February 1814 (succeeding Jenkin Whiteside and preceding Jesse Wharton) and from 10 October 1815 to 20 April 1818 (succeeding Joseph Anderson and preceding John Eaton). He was a Democratic-Republican.
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George Washington Campbell was born in Tongue, Scotland in 1769, and he immigrated to North Carolina in 1772 with his parents. He became a lawyer in Knoxville, Tennessee, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1803 to 1809 as a Democratic-Republican. From 1809 to 1811, he was judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and he went on to serve in the US Senate from 1811 to 1814 and from 1815 to 1818. In 1814, he briefly served as Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison; he would resign from the Senate again in 1818 to serve as ambassador to Russia from 1819 to 1820. He died in Nashville in 1848.