Everything about Herschel V Johnson totally explained
Herschel Vespasian Johnson (
September 18,
1812 –
August 16,
1880) was an
American politician. He was the
governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the
vice-presidential nominee of the
Douglas wing of the
Democratic Party in the
1860 US presidential election.
Johnson was born near Farmer's Bridge in
Burke County, Georgia. In 1834, he graduated from the
University of Georgia and passed his
bar examination. He moved to
Jefferson County in 1839 and began to practice law in
Louisville, Georgia. In 1844, he moved to the state capitol,
Milledgville, and continued to practice law.
He unsuccessfully ran for
Congress in 1843 and for Governor in 1847, and was finally appointed to fill
Senate seat vacated by the resignation of
Walter T. Colquitt. Johnson served in the Senate from
February 4,
1848 to
March 3,
1849, but wasn't a candidate for election to the seat. He returned to Georgia and served as a circuit court judge from 1849 to 1853. In 1853, he was elected Governor of Georgia, then re-elected in 1855. After he finished his term as governor in 1857,
Johnson County, Georgia was named in his honor. In 1860, when the Democratic Party refused to add the support of extending slavery to the western territories, the party split. To try to recapture some southern votes, Johnson was chosen as the northern Democrats' nominee as the running mate of presidential candidate
Stephen A. Douglas.
In 1861 he served as a delegate to the state
secession convention, and opposed secession from the Union. When it became clear that Georgia would secede, however, he acquiesced out of loyalty to his state and served as a Senator of the
Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to the end of the war in 1865. In the Confederate Senate, he opposed
conscription and the suspension of
habeas corpus. After the
Civil War, Johnson was a leader in the
Reconstruction and was named head of the Georgia constitutional convention. Upon Georgia's readmission to the Union in 1866, he was chosen as a U.S. Senator, but was disallowed from serving due to his involvement with the rebellion. He again became a circuit court judge in 1873 and served until his death in 1880 in
Louisville, Georgia.
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