Meanwhile, in 1828 Camden won his first political office, elected as a Whig as one of Lewis County's delegates in the Virginia House of Delegates and serving alongside Thomas Bland.Cynthia Miller Leonard (ed), The General Assembly of Virginia 1619-1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members (Richmond, 1978) p. 344 His brother John S. Camden would also later win election for a term in the House of Delegates for a term (1845-1846). Meanwhile, Gideon Camden developed a legal practice extending (as did his personal investments) between several mountain counties. He became Commonwealth Attorney for Randolph County in 1837. Gideon Camden later won election as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, representing Doddridge, Wetzel, Harrison, Tyler, Wood and Ritchie Counties alongside fellow lawyers and investors Joseph Johnson, John F. Snodgrass and Peter G. Van Winkle.Leonard p. 441 From 1843 to 1852, Jonathan M. Bennett became Gideon Camden's law partner as well as a part-time legislator.
