LC control no. | no2004056235 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Johnston, Joseph Forney, 1843-1913 |
See also | Alabama. Governor (1896-1900 : Johnston) |
Birth date | 1843-03-23 |
Death date | 1913-08-08 |
Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
Profession or occupation | Legislators Governors |
Found in | Biennial message of Jos. F. Johnston, Governor of Alabama, 1900, 1898 Ala. Dept. of Archives & History Web site, June 10, 2004 (Joseph Forney Johnston; Gov. of Ala. 1896-1900; b. 03/23/1843; d. 08/08/1913) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed June 29, 2023: (Johnston, Joseph Forney, a Senator from Alabama; born at "Mount Welcome," Lincoln County, N.C., March 23, 1843; attended the country schools in Lincoln County; while attending a military school in Alabama at the outbreak of the Civil War, enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army, rose to the rank of captain, and served from 1861 to 1865; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1866 and practiced in Selma, Ala.; moved to Birmingham, Ala., in 1884 and became president of the Alabama National Bank, resigning in 1894; became president of the Sloss Iron & Steel Co. in 1887; Governor of Alabama 1896-1900; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on August 7,1907, to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1909, caused by the death of Edmund W. Pettus; simultaneously elected for the term commencing March 4, 1909, and served from August 7, 1907, until his death in Washington, D.C., August 8, 1913; chairman, Committee on the University of the United States (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Sixty-third Congress); interment Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.) |
Associated language | eng |