Stewart Campbell

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Stewart Campbell (May 5, 1812 – February 20, 1885) was a Canadian lawyer and politician and a member of the Anti-Confederation Party.

Born in Jamaica, he completed his legal training in Halifax, England under the name William Young and practiced law there until he moved to Guysborough in Nova Scotia and became a surrogate judge, some time before 1842. On September 20, 1867, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the first member to represent the riding of Guysborough. He was re-elected for a second term on October 12, 1872, but was defeated in an election on January 22, 1874.

Having been opposed to Nova Scotia's entry into the Confederation of Canada in 1860s debates, he remained a member of the Anti-Confederation Party through his first year in office, which was in favor of reversing the decision to join the Confederation. In September 1868 he joined the Liberal-Conservative Party when the Anti-Confederation Party began to collapse. Spending his last years as a court county judge, he died on February 20, 1885.