Joseph T. Johnson

Joseph T. Johnson

Joseph Travis Johnson (February 28, 1858 - May 8, 1919) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. He was born in Brewerton, South Carolina. He attended the common schools and was graduated from Erskine College, Due West, South Carolina in 1879. He taught school for several years. Later, he studied law and he was admitted to the bar in 1883. He practiced law in Laurens, South Carolina and later in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Johnson was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1901, until April 19, 1915, when he resigned. After leaving Congress, he served as a Federal judge of the western district of South Carolina from 1915 until his death in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1919. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery.

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