| Alexander Campbell | |
| Jr/Sr1: | United States Senator |
| State1: | Ohio |
| Term Start1: | December 11, 1809 |
| Term End1: | March 3, 1813 |
| Predecessor1: | Stanley Griswold |
| Successor1: | Jeremiah Morrow |
| Office2: | 7th Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives |
| Term Start2: | December 5, 1808 |
| Term End2: | December 3, 1809 |
| Predecessor2: | Philemon Beecher |
| Successor2: | Edward Tiffin |
| Term Start3: | 1807 |
| Term End3: | 1809 |
| Preceded3: | Philip Lewis James Scott Abraham Shepherd |
| Succeeded3: | William Russell Abraham Shepherd |
| Constituency3: | Scioto County (1807-1808) Adams County (1807-1809) |
| Term Start5: | 1819 |
| Term End5: | 1820 |
| Preceded5: | Henry Chapman John Shaw |
| Succeeded5: | Thomas Morris |
| Constituency5: | Clermont County |
| Office6: | Member of the Ohio Senate from Brown County |
| Term Start6: | 1822 |
| Term End6: | 1824 |
| Preceded6: | Nathaniel Beasley |
| Succeeded6: | Unknown |
| Birth Date: | 1779 |
| Birth Place: | Frederick County, Virginia |
| Death Date: | November 5, |
| Death Place: | Ripley, Ohio |
| Party: | Democratic-Republican |
Alexander Campbell (1779November 5, 1857) was a National Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States Senate.
Born in Frederick County, Virginia, Campbell moved to eastern Tennessee and then to Kentucky with his parents. After studying medicine at Transylvania University, Campbell moved to Ohio in 1803, settling in Adams County a year later. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1807 until 1809-12-12, when he resigned his position to be a U.S. Senator.[1] An early anti-slavery campaigner, he had been unsuccessful in his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 1808, but won a special election to the state's other seat a few months later and served from 1809 to 1813. He again served in the State House in 1819 and from 1832 to 1833, and in the Ohio State Senate from 1822 to 1824. He ran unsuccessfully for the governorship in 1826.
Ohio Presidential elector in 1820 for James Monroe.[2] Ohio Presidential elector in 1836 for William Henry Harrison.[3]