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{{Officeholder
|name=John A. Campbell
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[Franklin Pierce]]
|terms=March 23, 1853[1] – April 30, 1861
|preceded=[[John McKinley]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[David Davis]]
}}
}}
'''John Archibald Campbell''' (June 24, 1811 – March 12, 1889) was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. Campbell was nominated to the Court after the sitting justices sent an unprecedented request to [[Franklin Pierce]] requesting him.<ref>{{Cite web|work=Oyez|publisher=Chicago-Kent School of Law|format=HTML|language=English|title=John A. Campbell|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/john_a_campbell}}</ref> Campbell was a states-rights advocate, but opposed secession in the [[Civil War]]-era, however he did side with the majority of justices in [[Dred Scott v. Sanford]], which held that [[African Americans]] could not be citizens of the [[United States]]. Campbell resigned from the Court after [[Alabama]] seceded and [[Civil War]] broke out.<ref name="oyez"/><ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/4983/Campbell-John-Archibald.html|format=HTML|title=John Archibald Campbell|language=English}}</ref> After the Civil War, he would argue many cases in front of the Court - as a lawyer.
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|taney=y}}
|name=John A. Campbell
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[Franklin Pierce]]
|terms=March 23, 1853[1] – April 30, 1861
|preceded=[[John McKinley]]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[David Davis]]
}}
}}
'''John Archibald Campbell''' (June 24, 1811 – March 12, 1889) was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. Campbell was nominated to the Court after the sitting justices sent an unprecedented request to [[Franklin Pierce]] requesting him.<ref>{{Cite web|work=Oyez|publisher=Chicago-Kent School of Law|format=HTML|language=English|title=John A. Campbell|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/john_a_campbell}}</ref> Campbell was a states-rights advocate, but opposed secession in the [[Civil War]]-era, however he did side with the majority of justices in [[Dred Scott v. Sanford]], which held that [[African Americans]] could not be citizens of the [[United States]]. Campbell resigned from the Court after [[Alabama]] seceded and [[Civil War]] broke out.<ref name="oyez"/><ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/4983/Campbell-John-Archibald.html|format=HTML|title=John Archibald Campbell|language=English}}</ref> After the Civil War, he would argue many cases in front of the Court - as a lawyer.
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|taney=y}}