Johnson, William
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born Dec. 27, 1771, in Charleston, S. C. He was elected to the state legislature in 1794; and was re-elected and made speaker. He was subsequently chosen a judge of the circuit court of the state; and in 1804 was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States, which position he held until his death. In 1822 he published the Life and Services of Nathaniel Greene, in two volumes. He died Aug. 11, 1834, in Brooklyn, N. Y.