Joseph T. Johnson

Joseph Travis Johnson ( born February 28, 1858 in Brewerton, Laurens County, South Carolina; † May 8, 1919 in Spartanburg, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1915 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Johnson attended the public schools of his home and then the Erskine College in Due West. Then he taught himself for some years as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1883 admitted to the bar he began in Laurens and work later in Spartansburg in his new profession.

Politically, Johnson was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1900 he was in the fourth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Stanyarne Wilson on March 4, 1901. In the following seven congressional elections, he was confirmed in each case. So that he could remain until his resignation on 19 April 1915 at the Congress. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were discussed and adopted. It was about the nationwide income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators.

Johnson resigned from his position after he had been appointed a judge of the Federal District Court for the Western District of South Carolina. This office he held until his death on May 8, 1919.