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William Johnson Jr.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States · 1804
William Johnson Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. William Johnson Jr. was an American attorney, state legislator, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1804 until his death in 1834. When he was 32 years old, Johnson was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Thomas Jefferson. He was the first Jeffersonian Republican member of the Court as well as the second Justice from the state of South Carolina.
Positions
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States1804-05-07–1834-08-04
Education
- College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)A.B., 1790
- Read law1793
Career
Private practice, South Carolina, 1793-1794; State representative, South Carolina, 1794-1799; speaker, 1798-1799; Judge, South Carolina Court of Common Pleas, 1799-1804
Biography
William Johnson Jr. was an American attorney, state legislator, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1804 until his death in 1834. When he was 32 years old, Johnson was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Thomas Jefferson. He was the first Jeffersonian Republican member of the Court as well as the second Justice from the state of South Carolina.
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