Congressional Races
Campbell first ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1980, when the seat went to future Governor Buddy Roemer, who unseated incumbent Buddy Leach. Other unsuccessful candidates in that race were former State Representative Jimmy Wilson, who lost to Leach by a narrow margin in 1978, State Representative Forrest Dunn of Shreveport, former State Senator Cecil K. Carter, Jr., of Shreveport, and Rogers M. "Mickey" Prestridge, the Bossier City municipal judge.
In 1988, Campbell lost the congressional race to a former Roemer aide, Republican Jim McCrery. During that special election campaign, triggered by Roemer's resignation to become governor, Campbell was seriously injured in a single vehicle car crash weeks before the 1988 runoff election when he drove the wrong way down an unfinished, and not yet opened, section of Interstate 49. The accident left him blind in his right eye. In 1990, Campbell made this third and final race for the U.S. House, but he was again defeated by McCrery, who solidified his hold on the district. (McCrery retired in January 2009 and was succeeded by the Republican John C. Fleming of Minden.)
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