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Johnston, Josiah Stoddard

jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 24, 1784, in Salisbury, Conn. He settled in Alexandria, Rapides parish, a frontier village. He held the post of district judge from 1812 till 1821.

In 1820 he was elected to congress as a Clay democrat, and in 1823 to the United States senate to fill a vacancy. He was reelected in 1825, and in 1831 was again chosen by a legislature that was politically opposed to him. He died May 19, 1833, in Red River, La.