William Cost Johnson
William Cost Johnson ( born January 14, 1806 Jefferson, Frederick County, Maryland, † April 14, 1860 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1843 he represented two times the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
William Johnson attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1831 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Jefferson in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. He was first a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and then the new Whig Party. In the years 1831 and 1832 he sat in the House of Representatives of Maryland.
In the congressional elections of 1832 Johnson was selected in the sixth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new position as successor of Charles S. Sewall on March 4, 1833. Until March 3, 1835, he was initially able to complete only one term in Congress. Since the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.
1836 Johnson was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Maryland. In the elections of 1836 he was elected as a Whig in the fifth district of his state again in Congress, where he could spend another three legislative periods between 4 March 1837, and the March 3, 1843 as the successor of George Corbin Washington. From 1839 to 1841 Johnson was chairman of the Committee for the administration of the Federal District District of Columbia; 1841-1843 he headed the Committee for management of state property.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Johnson practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 14 April 1860 in the German capital Washington.