Joseph Johnson
Virginia politician
Died when: 91 years 70 days (1094 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Joseph Ellis Johnson (December 19, 1785 – February 27, 1877) was a farmer, businessman and politician who served as United States Representative and became the 32nd Governor of Virginia from 1852 to 1856, the first Virginia governor to be popularly elected as well as the only Virginia governor from west of the Appalachian mountains.
During the American Civil War, he sympathized with the Confederacy, but returned to what had become West Virginia for his final years.
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