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 After Campbell died in Ferriday of a lingering illness,<ref name=natchez/> Mrs. Campbell served as sheriff under appointment of Governor [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] for four months from February 8, until June 1, 1940, when she was succeeded by Noah Cross, who won a special election for his first term in office.<ref>List of Sheriffs of Concordia Parish, Concordia parish Library, Main Branch in Vidalia.</ref>  Doretta Campbell was the daughter of Michael James Schuchs (1845-1905) and the former Julia A. Brunk (1846-1909). She was quickly buried on July 25, 1941, the same day as her death.<ref name=natchez>"Mrs Campbell Died Yesterday: Splendid Lady of Vidalia Called by Death, Buried Yesterday", ''The Natchez Democrat,'' Natchez, [[Mississippi]], July 26, 1941.</ref> Mrs. Campbell was not the first widow appointed in Louisiana to fill the remaining term of her husband as sheriff. In 1936, when Sheriff [[Wyatt Luther Nugent]] of Grant Parish was killed in the line of his duty, his widow, Lydia Ann Rosier Nugent, served briefly thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=frances-nugent-petrus&pid=171817799&fhid=10218|title=Frances Nugent Petrus|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>
-However, no woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana until 1956 when Eloise Bouanchaud was elected in Pointe Coupee Parish to succeed her late husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/louisiana/monroe/monroe-news-star/1956/04-18/|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|title=Sheriff's Widow Wins Election in Point Coupee|date=April 18, 1956}}</ref> The next time a woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana was in 1999, when Beth Oakley Lundy won the position in Calcasieu Parish, which encompasses [[Lake Charles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reocities.com/vbenson_2000/sheriffs.htm|title=First Woman Sheriffs in the United States of America|publisher=reocities.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> Lundy polled 51.5 percent of the vote cast against a fellow [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_10.html|title=Election returns: Calcasieu Parish|date=October 23, 1999|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>
+No woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana until 1956 when Eloise Bouanchaud was elected in Pointe Coupee Parish to succeed her late husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/louisiana/monroe/monroe-news-star/1956/04-18/|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|title=Sheriff's Widow Wins Election in Point Coupee|date=April 18, 1956}}</ref> The next time a woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana was in 1999, when Beth Oakley Lundy won the position in Calcasieu Parish, which encompasses [[Lake Charles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reocities.com/vbenson_2000/sheriffs.htm|title=First Woman Sheriffs in the United States of America|publisher=reocities.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> Lundy polled 51.5 percent of the vote cast against a fellow [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_10.html|title=Election returns: Calcasieu Parish|date=October 23, 1999|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>
 Services for both Campbells were held in Vidalia at the family residence, which was designed in [[Queen Anne]] Revival style architecture and was included on the National Register of Historic Places. The residence burned to the ground in January 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Campbell,_Sheriff_Eugene_P.,_House|title=Sheriff Eugene P. Campbell House|publisher=archiplanet.org|accessdate=May 30, 2012}}</ref> Both Campbells are interred at Natchez City Cemetery.<ref name=tpg/><ref name=natchez/>

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 ==Two Sheriff Campbells==
-After Campbell died in Ferriday of a lingering illness,<ref name=natchez/> Mrs. Campbell served as sheriff under appointment of Governor [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] for four months from February 8, until June 1, 1940, when she was succeeded by Noah Cross, who won a special election for his first term in office.<ref>List of Sheriffs of Concordia Parish, Concordia parish Library, Main Branch in Vidalia.</ref>  Doretta Campbell was the daughter of Michael James Schuchs (1845-1905) and the former Julia A. Brunk (1846-1909). She was quickly buried on the same day that she died.<ref name=natchez>"Mrs Campbell Died Yesterday: Splendid Lady of Vidalia Called by Death, Buried Yesterday", ''The Natchez Democrat,'' Natchez, [[Mississippi]], July 26, 1941.</ref> Mrs. Campbell was not the first widow appointed in Louisiana to fill the remaining term of her husband as sheriff. In 1936, when Sheriff [[Wyatt Luther Nugent]] of Grant Parish was killed in the line of his duty, his widow, Lydia Ann Rosier Nugent, served briefly thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=frances-nugent-petrus&pid=171817799&fhid=10218|title=Frances Nugent Petrus|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>
+After Campbell died in Ferriday of a lingering illness,<ref name=natchez/> Mrs. Campbell served as sheriff under appointment of Governor [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] for four months from February 8, until June 1, 1940, when she was succeeded by Noah Cross, who won a special election for his first term in office.<ref>List of Sheriffs of Concordia Parish, Concordia parish Library, Main Branch in Vidalia.</ref>  Doretta Campbell was the daughter of Michael James Schuchs (1845-1905) and the former Julia A. Brunk (1846-1909). She was quickly buried on July 25, 1941, the same day as her death.<ref name=natchez>"Mrs Campbell Died Yesterday: Splendid Lady of Vidalia Called by Death, Buried Yesterday", ''The Natchez Democrat,'' Natchez, [[Mississippi]], July 26, 1941.</ref> Mrs. Campbell was not the first widow appointed in Louisiana to fill the remaining term of her husband as sheriff. In 1936, when Sheriff [[Wyatt Luther Nugent]] of Grant Parish was killed in the line of his duty, his widow, Lydia Ann Rosier Nugent, served briefly thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=frances-nugent-petrus&pid=171817799&fhid=10218|title=Frances Nugent Petrus|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>
 However, no woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana until 1956 when Eloise Bouanchaud was elected in Pointe Coupee Parish to succeed her late husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/louisiana/monroe/monroe-news-star/1956/04-18/|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|title=Sheriff's Widow Wins Election in Point Coupee|date=April 18, 1956}}</ref> The next time a woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana was in 1999, when Beth Oakley Lundy won the position in Calcasieu Parish, which encompasses [[Lake Charles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reocities.com/vbenson_2000/sheriffs.htm|title=First Woman Sheriffs in the United States of America|publisher=reocities.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> Lundy polled 51.5 percent of the vote cast against a fellow [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_10.html|title=Election returns: Calcasieu Parish|date=October 23, 1999|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>

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 ==Two Sheriff Campbells==
-After Campbell died in Ferriday of a lingering illness,<ref name=natchez/> Mrs. Campbell served as sheriff under appointment on February 8, 1940 of Governor [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] until her death a year and a half later on July 25, 1941. By that time Noah W. Cross of Ferriday began the first of his twenty-five years as sheriff, seven nonconsecutive and interrupted terms, in the combined law-enforcement and tax-collecting position.<ref>List of 20th century sheriffs of Concordia Parish, Concordia Parish Library, Vidalia branch.</ref>  Doretta Campbell was the daughter of Michael James Schuchs (1845-1905) and the former Julia A. Brunk (1846-1909). She was quickly buried on the same day that she died.<ref name=natchez>"Mrs Campbell Died Yesterday: Splendid Lady of Vidalia Called by Death, Buried Yesterday", ''The Natchez Democrat,'' Natchez, [[Mississippi]], July 26, 1941.</ref> Mrs. Campbell was not the first widow appointed in Louisiana to fill the remaining term of her husband as sheriff. In 1936, when Sheriff [[Wyatt Luther Nugent]] of Grant Parish was killed in the line of his duty, his widow, Lydia Ann Rosier Nugent, served briefly thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=frances-nugent-petrus&pid=171817799&fhid=10218|title=Frances Nugent Petrus|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>
+After Campbell died in Ferriday of a lingering illness,<ref name=natchez/> Mrs. Campbell served as sheriff under appointment of Governor [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]] for four months from February 8, until June 1, 1940, when she was succeeded by Noah Cross, who won a special election for his first term in office.<ref>List of Sheriffs of Concordia Parish, Concordia parish Library, Main Branch in Vidalia.</ref>  Doretta Campbell was the daughter of Michael James Schuchs (1845-1905) and the former Julia A. Brunk (1846-1909). She was quickly buried on the same day that she died.<ref name=natchez>"Mrs Campbell Died Yesterday: Splendid Lady of Vidalia Called by Death, Buried Yesterday", ''The Natchez Democrat,'' Natchez, [[Mississippi]], July 26, 1941.</ref> Mrs. Campbell was not the first widow appointed in Louisiana to fill the remaining term of her husband as sheriff. In 1936, when Sheriff [[Wyatt Luther Nugent]] of Grant Parish was killed in the line of his duty, his widow, Lydia Ann Rosier Nugent, served briefly thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=frances-nugent-petrus&pid=171817799&fhid=10218|title=Frances Nugent Petrus|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>
 However, no woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana until 1956 when Eloise Bouanchaud was elected in Pointe Coupee Parish to succeed her late husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/louisiana/monroe/monroe-news-star/1956/04-18/|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|title=Sheriff's Widow Wins Election in Point Coupee|date=April 18, 1956}}</ref> The next time a woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana was in 1999, when Beth Oakley Lundy won the position in Calcasieu Parish, which encompasses [[Lake Charles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reocities.com/vbenson_2000/sheriffs.htm|title=First Woman Sheriffs in the United States of America|publisher=reocities.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> Lundy polled 51.5 percent of the vote cast against a fellow [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_10.html|title=Election returns: Calcasieu Parish|date=October 23, 1999|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>

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 |term_end2=January 30, 1940
 |preceded2=J. A. Cross
-|succeeded2=Doretta Katie "Rhetta" Schuchs Campbell
+|succeeded2=Doretta Katie "Rhetta" Schuchs Campbell (interim)
 |birth_place=Concordia Parish, Louisiana
 |birth_date=February 18, 1870
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 '''Eugene Preston Campbell''', known as '''Gene Campbell''' (February 18, 1870 &ndash; January 30, 1940), was a long-serving sheriff in  Concordia Parish in eastern [[Louisiana]]. He held the position for nearly twenty-eight years from June 1908 until 1916 and again from 1920 until his death, which occurred two weeks after his reelection to an eighth four-year term as sheriff, which never materialized.
-His longevity in office is almost as long as another Concordia Parish sheriff, [[Noah W. Cross]], who served from 1940 to 1948 and again from 1952 to 1973, a total of almost twenty-nine years.
+His longevity in office is almost as long as another Concordia Parish sheriff, [[Noah W. Cross]], who served from 1940 to 1948 and again from 1952 to 1973, a total of almost twenty-nine years. Campbell died at the age of sixty-nine; Cross at the age of sixty-eight.
 ==Background==

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 {{Infobox officeholder
-| name=Eugene Preston "Gene" Campbell
+|name=Eugene Preston "Gene" Campbell
 |office=[[Sheriff]] of Concordia Parish, [[Louisiana]]
-|term_start=June 1908
+|term_start=June 6, 1908
-|term_end=January 30, 1940
+|term_end=June 1, 1916
-|preceded=
+|preceded=Albert H. Gillespie
-|succeeded=Doretta Katie "Rhetta" Schuchs Campbell
+|succeeded=J. A. Cross
 |birth_place=Concordia Parish, Louisiana
 |birth_date=February 18, 1870
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 |alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]]}}
-'''Eugene Preston Campbell''', known as '''Gene Campbell''' (February 18, 1870 &ndash; January 30, 1940), was thus far the longest serving sheriff in the history of Concordia Parish in eastern [[Louisiana]]. He held office for nearly thirty-two years from June 1908 until his death, which occurred two weeks after his reelection to a ninth four-year term.
+'''Eugene Preston Campbell''', known as '''Gene Campbell''' (February 18, 1870 &ndash; January 30, 1940), was a long-serving sheriff in  Concordia Parish in eastern [[Louisiana]]. He held the position for nearly twenty-eight years from June 1908 until 1916 and again from 1920 until his death, which occurred two weeks after his reelection to an eighth four-year term as sheriff, which never materialized.
-His longevity in office has been likened to that of another Concordia Parish sheriff, [[Noah W. Cross]], who served from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1952 to 1973.
+His longevity in office is almost as long as another Concordia Parish sheriff, [[Noah W. Cross]], who served from 1940 to 1948 and again from 1952 to 1973, a total of almost twenty-nine years.
 ==Background==
-Campbell was born and reared on the Black River in Concordia Parish, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Campbell, who were among the early pioneers of the region.  F. L. Campbell was named assessor of Concordia Parish in 1888 by [[Governor]] Francis T. Nicholls and again in 1892 by Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr.  Eugene Campbell was himself appointed assessor by Governor Newton C. Blanchard. Campbell had five brothers, including a twin who died in early childhood. He played the position of end and was named a letterman on the first [[football]] team of [[Louisiana State University]] in 1893. Three years later, Campbell graduated from LSU.<ref name=tpg>"Death of Hon. E. P. Campbell," ''Tensas Gazette,'' February 1940.</ref>
+Campbell was born and reared on the Black River in Concordia Parish, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Campbell, who were among the early pioneers of the region. F. L. Campbell was named assessor of Concordia Parish in 1888 by [[Governor]] Francis T. Nicholls and again in 1892 by Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr.  Eugene Campbell was himself appointed assessor by Governor Newton C. Blanchard. Campbell had five brothers, including a twin who died in early childhood. He played the position of end and was named a letterman on the first [[football]] team of [[Louisiana State University]] in 1893. Three years later, Campbell graduated from LSU.<ref name=tpg>"Death of Hon. E. P. Campbell," ''Tensas Gazette,'' February 1940.</ref>
 Campbell and his wife, the former Doretta Katie "Rhetta" Schuchs,<ref>Doretta “Rhetta” Schuchs Campbell (1877-1941), Findagrave.com [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105893660/doretta-campbell], accessed February 4, 2026.</ref> a native of Vidalia, the seat of government for Concordia Parish, had an adopted daughter, Ruby Maude Chandler Campbell Fulton (1917-1985), and husband, Dudley Gilbert Fulton, Sr. (1915-2003), of Clarks in Caldwell Parish.<ref name=tpg/>

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 |religion=[[Episcopalian]]
 |occupation=Parish official
-|spouse=Doretta Katie Rhetta Schuchs Campbell
+|spouse=Doretta Katie "Rhetta" Schuchs Campbell
 |children=Ruby Maude Chandler Campbell Fulton
 |party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]