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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
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