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Sweet Sfjrings, Mo. In 1877-84 he taught school; and also spent one year working at an iron furnace in Alabama. In 1885 he entered the law department of the university of Michigan; and in 1877 graduated from that institution with the degree of B.L. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of law in Ohio. In 1889 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Lawill

rence county, Ohio. In 1909-11 he was a representative from Ohio to the sixty-first congress as a republican. Johnson, Albert, congressman, editor, was bt)rn .March 5, 1809. in Springfield, III. He is editor and publisher of the Daily Washingtoniau. In 191.'M.5 he was a reprosentativo from Washington to the sixty-third congress.

Johnson, Albinus Alonzo, educator,

cler-

gyman, founder, college president, author, was born Feb. 8, 1852, in Lexington, Ind. In 1874 he was ordained a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church.

In 1880-90 he

was the founder and president of the Fort Worth university of Texas; and in 189196 was president and professor of political science in the state university of Wyoming.

He

retired from

and

is

professional

life

in

now an invcHtment banker and

1902; brok-

er of Denver, Col. He is the author of The Pathway of the Just; and The Essential Doctrines of Christianity. Johnson, Alexander Bryan, banker, author, was l>orn May 29, 178fi, in England. Ho was a prominent banker of Utica for nearly half a century. Ho was the author of Treatise on Banking; The Philosophy of Human Knowledge; Religion in Its Relations to the Present Life; The Physiology of the Senses; The Meaning of Words; Nature and Value of Capital; Encyclopedia of

InKtruction;

and Guide to the Right Un-

derstanding of Our American Union. Scipt. 9, 1867, in Utica, N.Y. Johnson, Alexander Bryon, educator,

He lec-

In 1875 he was president of the nhio teachers' association; in 1881-83 was a member of the state board of examiners; and was a lecturer at institutes in western turer.

htjltes.

Johnson, Alfred, lawyer, legislator, jurist,

was born in Newburyport, Mass. He became a nott^ lawyer of Xew England; ^ was a member of the h'gislature before the

of

the

which state

and the 1S20

member convention

the

framed

constituti(»n of legislature. In

subse<iuently

he

was

made

ju<lge of probate,

lege;

and

He

died in 1852 in

Mas-

Johnson, Alexander Smith, lawyer, jurist, was born July 30. 1817, in Utica. N.Y. In 18.52 lie was elected to the bench of the In c<»urt of appeals, and served one term. 1873 he was appointed a commissioner of appeals to fill a vacancy. In 1873 he was reappoint»'d a judge of the court of appeals, holding the office until 1874. In 1875 he was appointed United States judge for the s.'cond circuit to fill a vacancy. He died Jan. 26. 1878. in Albany. N.Y. Johnson, Andrew, seventeenth president of the I'nited States, congressman. United States senator, vice-president of the United States, was born Dec. 29. 1808, in Raleigh. N.C. At the ago of ten years he was apprenticed to a tailor, with whom he remained seven years. He never attended school, but in 1827 lie married Miss Eli/jt McCardle, who taught him to write and cipher. In 1826 he

removed to Granville, was elected alderman of that 1828-29. In 18.30 he was elected mayor, and hehl the ofiice three years. In 1835 he was elected to the state legislature, was defeated in 1837, and elected nj,'"in in 1S39. In 1841 he was elected to the state senate, and in 1843-53 he was a representative to the twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first and thirtysecond congresses. In 1853-57 he was the fourteenth governor of Tennessee. In 185763 he was United States senator. In 186264 he was military governor of Tennessee. Tenn.. and village in

was vice-president of the Upon the death of President Lincoln he became president, and took the oath of office April 15, 1865. He was iin|)e;iched by the house of representatives Feb. 24. 1868 by a vote of 125 ayes to 40 nays. The following representatives were clinsen as managers, on the* part of the house, to conduct the bill of impeachment before the senate: Afessrs. John A. Bingham, of Ohio; George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts; Benjamin Franklin Butler, of Massachusetts: Tliaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania; Thomas Williams, of Pennsylvania: John .. Ixjgan, of Illinois, and James F. Wilson, of Iowa. The counsel for the president were Messrs. Benjamin R. Curtis, <»f .MassachuHi'tts; William M. Evarts. of New York; William S. Groeslw^ck, of Ohio; Thomas A. R. Nelson, of Tennessee; and 1865-69 he Ignited States.

In

die.l

separation;

current literature. sachusetts.

and

so continued for eighteen years. He was an overseer and trustee of Bowdoin colcontributed valuable papers to

Henry Stanl)erj-, of Ohio. The trial was begun March 3o'. 1868. before the United States senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, presided over by Chief Justice Chase. Pre^itlent .Johnson was acquitted by the sen-