James Edwin Campbell (7 July 1843-18 December 1924) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-OH 7) from 1884 to 1885 (succeeding Henry Lee Morey and preceding George E. Seney), OH-3 from 1885 to 1887 (succeeding Robert Maynard Murray and preceding Elihu S. Williams), and OH-7 from 1887 to 1889 (succeeding Seney and preceding Morey), and Governor of Ohio from 13 January 1890 to 11 January 1892 (succeeding Joseph B. Foraker and preceding William McKinley).
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James Edwin Campbell was born in Middletown, Ohio in 1843, and he served in the Union Army during the American Civil War before becoming a lawyer in Hamilton. Formerly a Republican who voted for Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, Campbell became a Democrat after 1872 and served as a Butler County prosecutor from 1876 to 1880, in the US House of Representatives from 1884 to 1889, and as Governor of Ohio from 1890 to 1892. He enacted the secret ballot in Ohio elections, but he lost the support of his party for removing the corrupt government of Cincinnati. He served as a delegate to the 1892, 1920, and 1924 Democratic National Conventions and practiced law in Columbus, Ohio, and he died in 1924.