Lewis Davis Campbell (9 August 1811-26 November 1882) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-OH 2) from 4 March 1849 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding David Fisher and preceding John Scott Harrison) and from OH-3 from 4 March 1853 to 25 May 1858 (succeeding Hiram Bell and preceding Clement Vallandigham) and from 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1873 (succeeding Robert C. Schenck and preceding John Quincy Smith).
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Lewis Davis Campbell was born in Franklin, Warren County, Ohio in 1811, and he published the Whig newspaper The Hamilton Intelligencer from 1831 to 1835, practiced law in Hamilton from 1835 to 1850, served in the US House of Representatives from 1849 to 1858 as a Whig and anti-slavery Republican (being unseated after his election was contested by Clement Vallandigham), as a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War, ambassador to Mexico from 1866 to 1867, in the State Senate from 1869 to 1870, and as a Democratic member of the US Congress from 1871 to 1873. He died in 1882.