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George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge)

b. 1807? d. 1877?

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and judge. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Lucy A. Guy Johnston in Shelby County, Kentucky, on November 28, 1828. Father of George G. Johnston. Married to Rosa A. Johnston. Father of John C. Johnston, Louisa Johnston, Eliza Johnston, Henry S. Johnston, Florence Johnston, George W. Johnston and Rosey Johnston. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1829 and 1832. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County from 1838 to 1842. Delegate to the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention from Shelby County. Attorney in Shelby County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1850. Judge of the Louisville City Court from 1854 to 1865. Elected circuit judge of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky in Jefferson County in August 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 369B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p 221.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 11, pp. 495B-96A.

History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties, vol. 1 (Cleveland: L. A. Williams & Co., 1882), 511-12.

John M. Palmer, Personal Reflections of John M. Palmer: The Story of an Earnest Life (Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1901), 243.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film 000259285.


Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 709.

"George W Johnston (unknown-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 150314903, accessed March 3, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150314903.

Citation

Johnston, George W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206338 (November 12, 2026).

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