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Johnson, Cave

lawyer, jurist, banker, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1793, in Robertson county, Tenn. He was a circuit judge for several years. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1829 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1845; after which he went into the cabinet of President Polk, as postmaster-general. He also held, for many years, the position of president bank of Tennessee, which he resigned in of the 1859. He died Nov. 23, 1866, in Clarksville, Tenn.

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