CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  THOMAS D. CAMPBELL - Hunt County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson - Page 179-180

THOMAS D. CAMPBELL.

Thomas D. Campbell, of Greenville, was born in Abhe­ville district, 
South Carolina, May 8, 1831. His parents re­moved in 1844 to Walker 
county, Georgia, where the son received a good education. Later he 
taught school in Ala­bama, and then in 1854 removed to Texas, 
locating in Cher­okee county near the town of Rusk. He was living in 
Jacksonville when the war came on and enlisted from that town in the 
Confederate army as a private in Capt. J. C. Maple's Company, 18th 
Texas Infantry. In 1870 he re­moved to Longview, then in Ruak county, 
and was soon chosen mayor of the town. Later when Gregg county was 
created he was elected its first county judge. After retiring from 
this office he again became a planter and a successful one. He was 
married in Georgia in May, 1850, to Miss Rachael Moore. Of this union 
only one child survives, Thomas Mitchell Campbell, the present governor 
of Texas, who was born near Rusk, in Cherokee county, Texas, 
April 22, 1856.  Governor Campbell after his graduation from Trinity 
University at Tehuacana removed to Longview, prac­ticing law there 
until 1889, when% he was made master-in-chancery of the I. & G. N. 
Ry., later receiver, and then gen­eral manager of said line  He 
resigned the latter position in 1897 and resumed the practice of law 
in Palestine.  He had never sought nor held public office until 
elected governor of the state.  The subject of this sketch, T. D. 
Campbell, lost his wife in 1863.  Later  he  was married to  Miss 
Cynthia Carroll, of Mansfield, La., by whom he has four children: 
Hon. James N. Campbell, county judge of Gregg county and a well known 
lawyer of Longview; John E. and T. D. Campbell, Jr., business men in 
Hunt county, and one daughter.  Mr. Campbell is in his seventy-seventh 
year, but is well preserved and takes a lively interest in affairs.  
He was a specially honored guest in Austin last January at the 
inauguration of his son-the second native Texan to be chosen Governor 
of Texas.  T. D. Campbell has lived in Hunt county for the last few 
years, where he is honored by all for his sterling qualities and 
democratic manners.