William Cost Johnson

William Cost Johnson (born January 14, 1806 in Jefferson , Frederick County , Maryland , †  April 14, 1860 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1833 and 1843 he twice represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Johnson attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1831, he began to work in Jefferson in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. He first became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and then the new Whig Party . He served in the Maryland House of Representatives in 1831 and 1832 .

In the congressional election of 1832 Johnson was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the sixth constituency of Maryland, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1833 as the successor to Charles S. Sewall . Until March 3, 1835, he could initially only complete one legislative period in Congress . Since President Andrew Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

In 1836 Johnson was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Maryland Constitution. In the elections of 1836 he was re-elected to Congress as Whig in the fifth district of his state, where he could spend three more terms between March 4, 1837 and March 3, 1843 as the successor to George Corbin Washington . From 1839 to 1841 Johnson was chairman of the District of Columbia Administration Committee ; between 1841 and 1843 he headed the committee for the management of state property.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, William Johnson practiced as a lawyer again. He died on April 14, 1860 in the federal capital Washington.

Web links

• William Cost Johnson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Cost Johnson in the database of Find a Grave (English)