Alexander Campbell
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Alexander Campbell may refer to:
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Canadian politicians:
- Alexander Campbell (Upper Canada politician)Alexander Campbell (Upper Canada politician)Alexander Campbell was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in New York state in 1770. His father served with Edward Jessup's Loyal Rangers during the American Revolution and settled in Edwardsburgh Township in Upper Canada after the war...
(1770–1834) - Alexander Franklin CampbellAlexander Franklin CampbellAlexander Franklin Campbell was a journalist and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Algoma East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1890 to 1894....
(born 1845), Canadian politician - Alexander Campbell (Canadian politician)Alexander Campbell (Canadian politician)Sir Alexander Campbell, PC, KCMG, QC was an English-born, Canadian statesman and politician, and a father of Canadian Confederation....
(styled Sir, 1822–1892), legislator, minister, & Lieutenant Governor - Alex CampbellAlex CampbellAlexander Bradshaw Campbell, PC is a former politician of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is the son of former premier Thane A. Campbell and Cecilia L. Bradshaw. He entered politics by winning a seat in the legislature through a 1965 by-election in 5th Prince...
(Alexander B., born 1933), longtime premier of Prince Edward Island - Alexander Campbell (Nova Scotia politician)Alexander Campbell (Nova Scotia politician)Alexander Campbell was a Scottish-born notary public and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Inverness County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1867 to 1871 and from 1878 to 1886 as a Liberal-Conservative member.He was born on the Isle of Skye, the son of Archibald...
Others:
- Alexander Campbell of CarcoAlexander Campbell of CarcoAlasdair Caimbeul or Alexander Campbell of Carco was a Scottish noble and prelate. Coming from a branch of Clan Campbell in the allegiance of the Earl of Argyll, his career began in the 1560s still only a minor, serving the Earl of Argyll's interest...
(died 1608), Scottish prelate, Bishop of Brechin - Colonel Alexander Campbell of Possil (1754-1849), military officer
- Sir Alexander Campbell, 1st BaronetSir Alexander Campbell, 1st BaronetSir Alexander Campbell, 1st Baronet, GCB was a senior officer of the British Army during the early nineteenth century...
(1760–1824), British general - Alexander Campbell (musician and writer)Alexander Campbell (musician and writer)Alexander Campbell , was a Scottish musician and miscellaneous writer.Campbell was born in 1764 at Tombea, Loch Lubnaig, and first educated at the grammar school, Callander, was the second son of a carpenter who, falling into straitened circumstances, removed to Edinburgh, where he died when...
- Alexander Campbell (actor) (1888-1970), American actor
- Alexander Campbell (American politician)Alexander Campbell (American politician)Alexander Campbell was a National Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States Senate.Born in Frederick County, Virginia, Campbell moved to eastern Tennessee and then to Kentucky with his parents. After studying medicine at Transylvania University, Campbell moved to Ohio in...
(1779–1857), Ohio - Alexander Campbell (clergyman) (1788–1866), Religious reformer on the American Frontier during the Second Great Awakening
- Alexander Campbell (businessman)Alexander Campbell (businessman)Alexander Campbell was a businessman who, along with three other alleged Molly Maguires members, was hanged for the murders of two mine operatives....
(1833 - 1877), Irish-born American, also executed activist - Alexander Campbell (Illinois politician)Alexander Campbell (Illinois politician)Alexander Campbell was a member of the US House of Representatives.Cambell was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. A former ironworker, he became wealthy managing mines and steel mills. He was the first mayor of LaSalle, Illinois and in the Illinois House of Representatives before entering the...
(1814–1889) - Alexander William Campbell (general)Alexander William Campbell (general)Alexander William Campbell , was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was a lawyer in Tennessee before and after the war, mayor of Jackson, Tennessee, 1856, and an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for governor of Tennessee in...
(1828-1893) American Civil War Confederate general - Alexander Cameron Campbell, MP for ArgyllshireArgyllshire (UK Parliament constituency)Argyllshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1950, when it was renamed Argyll...
, 1841–1843 - Alec Campbell (footballer)Alec Campbell (footballer)Alistair Kenyon Campbell was a professional footballer who played nearly 200 games for Southampton in the first quarter of the twentieth century, before briefly becoming manager at Chesterfield....
(1890–1943), English footballer - Alexander Petrie CampbellAlexander Petrie CampbellThe Reverend Alexander Petrie Campbell OBE was an Australian-born Congregational church minister and chairman of the Congregational Union of Australia and New Zealand from 1937 until 1939.-Immediate family:...
(1881–1963), Australian-born religious leader - Alec CampbellAlec CampbellAlexander William Campbell was the final surviving Australian participant of the Gallipoli campaign during the First World War. His death broke the last living link of Australians with the Gallipoli story....
(1899–2002), Australian soldier and unionist - Alec Campbell (archaeologist)Alec Campbell (archaeologist)Alexander Colin Campbell is an archaeologist and museum curator in Botswana. He is Emeritus Director of Botswana's Department of Wildlife and National Parks and National Monuments.-Life:...
, Botswana archaeologist and museum curator - Alex Campbell (singer)Alex Campbell (singer)Alex Campbell was a Scottish folk singer. Described by Colin Harper as a "melancholic, hard-travelling Glaswegian", he was influential in the British folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s and was one of the first folk singers to tour the UK and Europe...
, Scottish folk singer - Alexander Fraser CampbellAlexander Fraser CampbellSecond Lieutenant Alexander Fraser Campbell GC, of the Royal Engineers, 9th Bomb Disposal Company was posthumously awarded the George Cross for conspicuous gallantry in defusing a bomb which had fallen on the Triumph Engineering Works in Coventry on the 17th of October 1940.He found the bomb was...
, George Cross recipient - Alexander Maxwell Campbell (1888-1962), Canadian politician commonly known as Max CampbellMax CampbellAlexander Maxwell Campbell was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member of the Canadian House of Commons...