W.H.L. Campbell was an American attorney and politician who served as the first elected Clerk of the Oklahoma Supreme Court from 1907 to 1914.
Biography
W.H.L. Campbell was born in 1867 in Snow Creek, North Carolina. He attended school in North Carolina before moving to Texas in 1890. He began practicing law in 1901 in Rockwall, Texas. He was the elected county attorney in Rockwall County, Texas from 1902 to May 1905 when he moved to Indian Territory. He lived in Ryan, Oklahoma and worked as the city attorney for Ada, Oklahoma. In 1907 he was elected as the first Clerk of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma and he was re-elected in 1910. In 1914, he lost re-election in the Democratic Party's primary to William M. Franklin.