Thomas Johnson (Arkansas judge)

Thomas Johnson (December 29, 1808 – March 25, 1878)^[1]^[2] was chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1845 to 1852.

Born in Maryland,^[1]^[3] Johnson moved to St. Louis, Missouri in the autumn of 1834 and to Batesville, Arkansas in January, 1836.^[1]

In 1840, the Democratic Party-dominated legislature elected Johnson to be chief justice following the expiration of Judge Daniel Ringo's term. Ringo was a Whig.^[3] Soon after his seating on the supreme court, he moved to Little Rock.^[1] Johnson served as chief justice until 1852. In 1877, he died at his home in Little Rock, at the age of 69.^[2]^[3]

He was a tall, darkhaired, thin, "dry man, of great honesty and uprightness of character".^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "In Memoriam", Daily Arkansas Gazette (May 22, 1878), p. 2.
^ ^a ^b "Meeting of the Bar Association in Respect to the Death of the Hon. Thomas Johnson", Daily Arkansas Gazette (March 27, 1878), p. 4.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Fay Hempstead, Historical Review of Arkansas (1911), p. 452.

Political offices
Preceded by Daniel Ringo	Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court 1845–1852	Succeeded by George C. Watkins

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[In_Memoriam-1] "In Memoriam", Daily Arkansas Gazette (May 22, 1878), p. 2.

[Meeting-2] "Meeting of the Bar Association in Respect to the Death of the Hon. Thomas Johnson", Daily Arkansas Gazette (March 27, 1878), p. 4.

[Hempstead-3] Fay Hempstead, Historical Review of Arkansas (1911), p. 452.

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