David Emmons Johnston

David Emmons Johnston (born April 10, 1845 in Pearisburg , Giles County , Virginia , † July 7, 1917 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1901 he represented the third electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

David Johnston attended public schools in his home country. At the outbreak of the Civil War , he joined the army of the States Confederate one. In the following four years of the war he served in an infantry regiment from Virginia. After the war, Johnston studied law. After he was admitted to the bar in 1867, he began to practice his new profession in Pearisburg. In 1870 he moved to Mercer County , West Virginia. There he worked between 1872 and 1876 as a district attorney.

Johnston was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1878 he was a member of the West Virginia Senate . Between 1880 and 1888 he served as a judge in the state's ninth judicial district. In 1898 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third district of West Virginia , where he succeeded Republican Charles Dorr on March 4, 1899 . But since he was defeated by Joseph H. Gaines in the following elections in 1900 , he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1901 .

In 1908 David Johnston moved to Portland, Oregon, where he again worked as a lawyer. He died there on July 7, 1917.

Web links

• David Emmons Johnston in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David Emmons Johnston in the database of Find a Grave (English)