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Thomas Johnson (1732–1819)

Description

Thomas Johnson, Supreme Court associate justice, was born on 4 November 1732 in Calvert County, Maryland. Home-educated, he worked as a clerk of the Provincial Court in Annapolis and studied law with Annapolis attorney Stephen Bordley. In 1760 Johnson was admitted to the bars of Frederick County and Baltimore; six years later, he married Ann Jennings (17451794), the daughter of his former employer.

Citations

"Thomas Johnson." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310010237/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=365d715d. Accessed 26 Sept. 2023.

Sandra F. Van Burkleo, "Johnson, Thomas," in Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005). 

Douglas R. Littlefield, "Eighteenth-Century Plans to Clear the Potomac River: Technology, Expertise, and Labor in a Developing Nation," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 93, Number 3 (July 1985), 291–322.

"To George Washington from Thomas Johnson, 18 June 1770," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0233. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 8, 24 June 1767 – 25 December 1771, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 349–353.]

Thomas Johnson at Oyez.

Thomas Johnson at Federal Judicial Center.

Thomas Johnson at Find a Grave.

Governor Thomas Johnson at FamilySearch.