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Madison Conyers Johnson (Fayette County, KY, attorney, bank director, professor, and chair of Transy U trustees)

b. 1806-09-21 d. 1886-12-07

Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, bank director and university trustee. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of Major William Johnson and Elizabeth Payne Johnson. Married to Sallie Ann Clay Johnson on December 23, 1828. Graduated from Transylvania University in 1823. Read law with Martin D. Hardin in Frankfort in 1824. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1825. Attorney in Fayette County from 1828 to 1865. Member of the Whig party. Owned seven enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fayette County from 1853 to 1855. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fayette County from 1857 to 1859. Member of the board of directors of the Northern Bank of Kentucky. President of the Northern Bank of Kentucky from 1858. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860. Chairman of the board of trustees of Transylvania University in 1865. President of the law department of Kentucky University in 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1850),‌ ‌Population‌ ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌District‌ ‌1,‌ ‌p.‌ ‌145B.‌ ‌

‌ Seventh‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1850),‌ ‌Slave ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌District‌ ‌1,.

Eighth‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1860),‌ ‌Population‌ ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌Lexington,‌ ‌p.‌ ‌389.‌ ‌

‌ Eighth‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1860),‌ ‌Slave ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌Lexington Ward 1,‌ ‌p.‌ ‌450A-B.‌ ‌

Ninth‌ ‌Manuscript‌ ‌Census‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌United‌ ‌States‌ ‌(1870),‌ ‌Population‌ ‌Schedules,‌ ‌Kentucky,‌ ‌

Fayette‌ ‌County,‌ ‌Lexington‌ ‌Ward‌ ‌1,‌ ‌p.‌ ‌194B.‌ ‌

J.‌ ‌M.‌ ‌Armstrong,‌ ‌ The‌ ‌Biographical‌ ‌Encyclopædia‌ ‌of‌ ‌Kentucky‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Dead‌ ‌and‌ ‌Living‌,‌ ‌

(Cincinnati,‌ ‌Ohio,‌ ‌1878), ‌Volume‌ ‌1,‌ ‌pp.‌ ‌146-47.‌ ‌

"Madison‌ ‌Conyers‌ ‌Johnson‌ ‌(1806-1886),"‌ ‌Find‌ ‌A‌ ‌Grave,‌ Memorial‌ ‌‌82208004‌,‌ ‌accessed‌ ‌December‌ ‌26,‌ ‌2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82208004‌‌.‌ ‌

KYR-0001-009-0038.‌ ‌‌

Citation

Johnson, Madison Conyers. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212443 (November 12, 2026).

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