Jacob Miller Campbell (20 November 1821-27 September 1888) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-PA 17) from 4 March 1877 to 3 March 1879 (succeeding John Reilly and preceding Alexander Hamilton Coffroth) and from 4 March 1881 to 3 March 1887 (succeeding Coffroth and preceding Edward Scull).
Biography[]
Jacob Miller Campbell was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania in 1821, and he was raised in Allegheny City. He became a printer for the Somerset Whig before becoming a magazine publisher in Pittsburgh and a newspaper publisher in New Orleans, becoming a steamboater on the lower Mississippi River from 1841 to 1847 and a gold miner in California in 1851. He went on to build the Cambria Iron Works in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1853, and he served in the 54th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1877 to 1879 and from 1881 to 1887. He died in 1888.