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JOHNSON, Joseph Travis (1858-1919)

Democrat of South Carolina

4th congressional district

Served in House 1901-1917

Total roll-call votes cast: 962

Biography

A Representative from South Carolina; born in Brewerton, Laurens County, S.C., February 28, 1858; attended the common schools and was graduated from Erskine College, Due West, S.C., in 1879; taught school for several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1883; practiced law in Laurens and later in Spartanburg; 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; Federal judge of the western district of South Carolina from 1915 until his death in Spartanburg, S.C., May 8, 1919; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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