M. Conyers Johnson.
Title
M . Conyers Johnson .
Creator
Levin, H. (editor)
Contributors
Lewis Publishing Company (publisher)
Description
Madison Conyers Johnson was born September 21 , 1806 in Fayette County , Kentucky to one of the states pioneer families . His grandfather , Robert Johnson , represented the District of Kentucky in the Virginia Assembly in 1782 and was a member of the Constitutional Conventions of 1792 and 1799 . Madison C . Johnson was a graduate of Transylvania University and he read law under Martin D . Hardin and Robert Wickliffe . He was admitted to the bar in 1825 and established a practice in Lexington . He was appointed Attorney General of Kentucky in 1849 . He was commissioned along with James Harlan and J.W . Stevenson by the Kentucky legislature to draft a code of practice for civil and criminal cases which the body adopted in 1854 . He was a professor at the law college of the Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College and a founder of the Lexington Cemetery . He died in 1886 and buried in the Lexington Cemetery .
Subject
Lawyers Legal education Teachers Portraits
People Pictured
Johnson, Madison Conyers
Date Original
1897
Object Type
Book illustrations
Source
28 x 22 cm. b&w plate. Opposite p. 625 in H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1897. In Law Library Rare Book Collection.
Citation Information
Levin, H. The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1897.
Collection
Law Library Collection
Collection Website
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/law/
Digital Publisher
Law Library of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville
Format
image/jpeg
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