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Johnston, John Warfield

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, born Sept. 9, 1818, in Abingdon, Va. In 1839 he became judge of the tenth judicial district of Virginia. He was elected in 1870 to the United States senate as a conservative, and by re-elections served till 1883. He died Feb. 27, 1889, in Richmond, Va.

JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON, soldier, congressman, author, was born in 1809, in Longwood, Va. In 1861 he entered the confederate service as general, and served throughout the civil war. In 1878 he was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-sixth congress; and declined a renomination. In 1885 he was appointed commissioner of railroads in the department of the interior at Washington. He published a Narrative of Military Operations, a spirited defense of his military policy. He died March 21, 1891, in Washington, D. C.