Waldo P. Johnson

Waldo P. Johnson

Waldo Porter Johnson (* 16th September 1817 in Bridgeport , Harrison County , Virginia ; †  14. August 1885 in Osceola , Missouri ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ), of the state of Missouri in the US Senate and in Konföderiertenkongress represented .

Waldo Johnson, born in what is now West Virginia , whose uncle Joseph Johnson was Governor of Virginia from 1852 to 1855 , attended public and private schools and graduated from Rector College in Pruntytown in 1839 . He studied law , was inducted into the bar, and began practicing in Harrison County. In 1842 he moved to Osceola, Missouri, where he also worked as a lawyer. In the Mexican-American War he fought in the 1st Volunteer Regiment from Missouri.

In 1847 Johnson served in the Missouri House of Representatives ; the following year he was elected public prosecutor for the judiciary. From 1851 to 1852 he was a judge at the District Court until he resigned and then independently as a lawyer worked.

Johnson attended the Washington, DC Peace Conference in 1861 , which tried unsuccessfully to avert civil war . On March 17 of the same year he entered the US Senate as a representative of Missouri, from which he was expelled on January 10, 1862 for lack of loyalty to the government. During the war he fought as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate Army ; in addition, he was a member of the Confederation Senate from December 24, 1863 as the successor to the late Robert Peyton . With the surrender of the Confederate on May 10, 1865, his political career ended.

From August 1865 to April 1866 living Waldo Johnson in Hamilton ( Canada ). After his return to Osceola he started working legally again. In 1875 he chaired the Missouri Constitutional Convention.

Web links

• Waldo P. Johnson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Waldo P. Johnson in the database of Find a Grave (English)