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William Johnson (Nelson County, Kentucky, attorney and state representative)

b. 1817-12-04 d. 1888

Nelson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Nelson County native. Son of William Johnson. Married to Nannie Crow Johnson in 1855. Father of Eliza Johnson, William Johnson, Ben Johnson, Lila Johnson, and Robert Johnson. Store merchant with Charles McManus until 1840. Studied law with Ben Hardin. Admitted to the bar in 1849. County attorney in Nelson County from 1851 to 1862. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in 1860. Served as representative for the 14th District in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 332A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 270.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 102B.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 350.

National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, NSDAR Lineage Book, Washington, D.C. : NSDAR, 1891-1939, Volume 061: 1907, 105.

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Johnson, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209315 (November 12, 2026).

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