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.