Berry was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from Selma during the 1886-1887 session. Since this photograph has a number on the front, it was probably taken when he was a state representative.
Campbell served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1836 to 1837 and from 1842 to 1843. He was a justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1853 and 1860 and was Assistant Secretary of War for the Confederacy from 1862 to 1865.
Simpson served in the Alabama Senate from 1884 to 1887, and in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1903. He was elected an associate justice on the Alabama Supreme Court in 1904.