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Donald Campbell

Full Name: Donald "Don" Campbell
Birth date: March 25, 1830
Death date: November 6, 1871

Terms of Service

(1) "[James] Flanagan's successor, Donald Campbell, 'President of the Senate for the time being,' was elected October 27, 1870 [sic], died November 6, 1871 and was succeeded by Webster Flanagan, elected November 13, 1871." Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) [James] Flanagan presided as President of the Senate in Provisional Session and was elected U.S. Senator, vacating his state office. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) 12th Legislature, 1st C.S. - Drawing for Terms of Office, 5/2/1870, pp. 51-52. Drew 6-year term. Senate Journal .
(4) Party affiliation, Radical. Roster of members, 12th Legislature, 1870. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

  • Forty-fifth Day, 11/7/1871, report of the death of Lieutenant Governor Don Campbell, committee to arrange funeral, remains brought into Senate chamber; Forty-sixth Day, 11/9/1871, funeral rites to be performed by Masonic fraternity; Forty-seventh Day, 11/10/1871, resolutions on the death of President Campbell; pp. 260-263. Senate Journal .

Other Resources

  • J.W. Flanagan elected lieutenant governor 11/30/1869. However, the "legislature was organized February 10, 1870, with Ira H. Evans as Speaker of the House, and Donald Campbell as President of the Senate," p. 185-187. A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685 to 1897 .
  • Obituary, 11/8/1871, p. 2. "Don Campbell died this morning at four o'clock, of typhoid fever. . ."; Account of Don Campbell's funeral in the Capitol, 11/10/1871, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
  • CAMPBELL, DONALD (1830-1871). Death date 11/8/1871. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • "Early politico backed Union, battled Klan," by Van Craddock, 1/8/2005. Longview News-Journal .
  • Campbell, Donald. Death date 11/6/1871 on headstone. Texas State Cemetery .
  • J.W. Flanagan was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1869, but was never inaugurated. His successor, Donald Campbell, served as "acting president of the senate until his death in November of 1871." Texas State Library and Archives Commission .
  • Letter from Marion County Chief Justice Donald Campbell to Governor Elisha Pease on the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Jefferson, Texas State Library and Archives Commission .
  • Biographical sketch of Donald Campbell, p. 91. "Campbell died in office on November 6, 1871, and was succeeded as president pro tempore on November 13 by none other than Webster Flanagan." The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.
  • Webster Flanagan often served as president pro tempore during Don Campbell's illness. On Campbell's death, he was elected president pro tem for the remainder of the Twelfth Legislature, serving ex officio in the office to which his father had been elected. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.
  • "After the Senate chose Lieutenant Governor James W. Flanagan to represent Texas as a senator in Washington, [Donald] Campbell was elected president pro tempore of the Senate on April 27, 1870, and so became ex officio lieutenant governor of Texas," p. 91. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.

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