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'''George Barnes Campbell''' (June 10, 1879<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Campbell&GSfn=George&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1161&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=93824345&df=all&|title=George B. Campbell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref> – February 27, 1967), was a [[journalist]] who in 1919 launched the former ''The Hammond Vindicator'' [[newspaper]] in Hammond in Tangipahoa Parish in southeastern [[Louisiana]], published every Thursday.
'''George Barnes Campbell''' (June 10, 1879<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Campbell&GSfn=George&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1161&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=93824345&df=all&|title=George B. Campbell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref> – February 27, 1967), was a [[journalist]] who in 1919 launched the former ''The Hammond Vindicator'' [[newspaper]] in Hammond in Tangipahoa Parish in southeastern [[Louisiana]], published every Thursday.
A native of the capital city of [[Raleigh]], [[North Carolina]], he was the son of John M. and Mary Moore Campbell. He attended public schools in Newburn in Dyer County in northwestern [[Tennessee]], and attendended [[Vanderbilt University]] in the capital city of [[Nashville]], Tennessee. From 1902 to 1905, he was a reporter for ''The Nashville American.'' He then became the compositor for the former ''New Orleans States'' in [[New Orleans]] but moved to Hammond in 1907 to be editor of the former ''Louisiana Sun,'' a position he held for a decade. From 1917 to 1919, he was assistant city editor of the ''San Antonio Express-News'' in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], but soon returned to Hammond to establish ''The Hammond Vindicator,'' a revised weekly paper from the former ''The Southern Vindicator,'' previously ''The Hammond Graphic.''<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site20.php|title=Campbell, George Barnes in ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association|date=1988|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref>
A native of the capital city of [[Raleigh]], [[North Carolina]], he was the son of John M. and Mary Moore Campbell. He attended public schools in Newburn in Dyer County in northwestern [[Tennessee]] and [[Vanderbilt University]] in the capital city of [[Nashville]], Tennessee. From 1902 to 1905, he was a reporter for ''The Nashville American.'' He then became the compositor for the former ''New Orleans States'' in [[New Orleans]] but moved to Hammond in 1907 to be editor of the former ''Louisiana Sun,'' a position he held for a decade. From 1917 to 1919, he was assistant city editor of the ''San Antonio Express-News'' in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], but soon returned to Hammond to establish ''The Hammond Vindicator,'' a revised weekly paper from the former ''The Southern Vindicator,'' previously ''The Hammond Graphic.''<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site20.php|title=Campbell, George Barnes in ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association|date=1988|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref>
Under Campbell, ''The Vindicator'' posted two mottoes on its front-page banner: "Land of Sunshine, Moonshine and Flowers" and, to show that Campbell was willing to step on toes, "Let the Fur Fly."<ref name=dailystar>{{cite web|url=http://www.hammondstar.com/daily-star-acquires-vindicator/article_fa7d3f39-64d8-527f-bc39-dbd48eedaaf4.html|title=Daily Star acqiuires Vindicator|publisher=''Hammond Star''|date=September 8, 2003|author=David J. Mitchell|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref>
Under Campbell, ''The Vindicator'' posted two mottoes on its front-page banner: "Land of Sunshine, Moonshine and Flowers" and, to show that Campbell was willing to step on toes, "Let the Fur Fly."<ref name=dailystar>{{cite web|url=http://www.hammondstar.com/daily-star-acquires-vindicator/article_fa7d3f39-64d8-527f-bc39-dbd48eedaaf4.html|title=Daily Star acqiuires Vindicator|publisher=''Hammond Star''|date=September 8, 2003|author=David J. Mitchell|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref>