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John Archibald Campbell (June 24 1811 – March 12 1889) was an American jurist. He was a successful lawyer in Georgia and Alabama where he served in the State legislatures. Appointed by Franklin Pierce to the United States Supreme Court in 1853 he served until the outbreak of the American Civil War when he became an official of the Confederacy. After serving six months in a military prison he resumed a successful law practice in New Orleans where he opposed Reconstruction.
