Campbell, John Allen

Life Span
to
    Full name
    John Allen Campbell
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    1
    Family
    Isabella Crane Wunderly (wife, 1872)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Journalist
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Printer
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Government
    Grant Administration (1869-77)
    Diplomat
    Governor
    Military
    Union Army
    US military (Post-Civil War)

    John Allen Campbell (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Campbell's real importance, however, is his role in the passage of the nation's first woman suffrage law. In 1889 Wyoming's constitutional convention included a suffrage provision in the aspiring state's constitution. When it joined the Union on 10 July 1890, Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote and hold office. Wyoming became known as "the Equality State," a legacy to which Campbell contributed.
    Rick Ewig, "Campbell, John Allen," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-01123.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Campbell, John Allen," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/15841.