Les Campbell | |
State Senate1: | Virginia |
District1: | 4th |
Term Start1: | January 12, 1972 |
Term End1: | January 14, 1976 |
Preceded1: | James D. Hagood |
Succeeded1: | Elmo Cross |
State Senate2: | Virginia |
District2: | 26th |
Term Start2: | January 12, 1966 |
Term End2: | January 12, 1972 |
Preceded2: | John Alexander |
Succeeded2: | George S. Aldhizer |
State Senate3: | Virginia |
District3: | 29th |
Term Start3: | January 8, 1964 |
Term End3: | January 12, 1966 |
Preceded3: | Blake T. Newton |
Succeeded3: | Lloyd C. Bird |
Party: | Democratic |
Birth Name: | Leslie Dunlop Campbell Jr. |
Birth Date: | January 26, 1925 |
Birth Place: | Hanover, Virginia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Hanover, Virginia, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | University of Richmond (LLB) |
Allegiance: | United States |
Branch: | United States Navy |
Battles: | World War II |
Leslie Dunlop Campbell Jr. (January 26, 1925 – December 26, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Virginia state senate. The former commonwealth's attorney of Hanover County, he won the nomination for Senate in 1963 against former delegate Edmund T. DeJarnette.[1] He was defeated in a 1975 Democratic primary challenge by Elmo Cross.[2] [3]