Person:Josiah Johnston (1)

Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 1810 census:^[3]

Johnston, Josiah S.

Males

10-15 = 1

16-25 = 3

Females

[none]

Other free persons = 1

Slaves = 5

Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 1810 census:^[3]

Johnston, Josiah S. (agriculture = 5)

Males

under 10 = 1

26-44 = 1

Females

26-45 = 1

Slaves

Males = 9

Females = 4

U.S. Congressman and Senator from Louisiana. Appointed to the U.S. Senate upon the resignation of James Brown, he was subsequently elected to two terms and served from 1824 until his death. Johnston was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, and raised in Kentucky from childhood. Graduating from Transylvania University in Lexington in 1802, he was admitted to the bar and moved to the Territory of Orleans (later Louisiana) to set up law practice in Alexandria. From 1805 to 1812 he was a member of the Territorial Legislature. During the War of 1812 he raised a regiment to aid General Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans; ironically, in politics he became a staunch Anti-Jacksonian. Following a stint as a State District Judge (1812 to 1821), Johnston was elected as a Louisiana At-Large Representative to the Seventeenth Congress and served from 1821 to 1823. The setback of losing reelection to the US House in 1822 freed him to accept the Senate appointment less than two years later. In his first elected Senate term he was Chairman of the Committee on Commerce. On May 19, 1833, Johnston was killed in an explosion aboard the steamship Lioness on the Red River in Louisiana. There is a cenotaph in his memory at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC. He was the half-brother of future Civil War Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Find A Grave.

   Josiah Stoddard Johnston

2. ↑ United States. Congress (109th, 2005-2006). United States. Congress. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005.

   Josiah Stoddard Johnston
   
   A Representative and a Senator from Louisiana; born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., November 24, 1784; moved with his father to Kentucky in 1788; returned to Connecticut to attend primary school; graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in 1802; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Alexandria, La. (then the Territory of Orleans); member, Territorial legislature 1805-1812; during the War of 1812, raised and organized a regiment for the defense of New Orleans, but reached the city after the battle; engaged in agricultural pursuits; State district judge 1812-1821; elected to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; appointed to the United States Senate in 1824 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Brown; elected to the Senate in 1825; reelected in 1831 and served from January 15, 1824, until his death, caused by an explosion on the steamboat Lioness, on the Red River in Louisiana, May 19, 1833; chairman, Committee on Commerce (Nineteenth Congress); interment in Rapides Cemetery, Pineville, La.
   
   Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Rapides, Louisiana, United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 282.
4. ↑ Rapides, Louisiana, United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 135.