Joseph Johnston (other)
Joseph Johnston may refer to: *Joseph Johnston (Irish politician) (1890–1972), Irish academic, farmer and politician *Allan Johnston (politician) (Joseph Allan Johnston, 1904–1974), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons * Joseph C. Johnston (born 1938), American politician in the state of Iowa * Joseph E. Johnston (1807–1891), United States and Confederate Army general * Joseph F. Johnston (1843–1913), American governor of Alabama *Joseph Shackford Johnston, president of Virginia Wesleyan College * Joe Johnston (born 1950), American film director *Joe Johnston (rugby union) (born 1998), New Zealand rugby union player See also *Joseph Johnson (other) Joseph Johnson may refer to: Entertainment *Joseph McMillan Johnson (1912–1990), American film art director *Smokey Johnson (1936–2015), New Orleans jazz musician *N.O. Joe (Joseph Johnson, born 1975), American musician, producer and songwrite ...

Joseph Johnston (Irish Politician)
Joseph Johnston (20 August 1890 – 1972) was an Irish academic, farmer, writer and politician. He was born in 1890 in Toomog townland, Castlecaulfield, County Tyrone, to John Johnston, a national school teacher, and the former Mary Geddis. He came from a Presbyterian family of Ulster-Scots descent. He was educated at Dungannon Royal School (1902–06), Trinity College Dublin (1906–10, BA (Mod) in Classics) and Lincoln College, Oxford (1910–12). He supported Home Rule and was the author of ''Civil War in Ulster'' (1913) and ''The Nemesis of Economic Nationalism'' (1934). He became Professor of Applied Economics in Trinity College Dublin in 1939. He was first elected to Seanad Éireann as an Independent member in 1938 by the Dublin University constituency. He was re-elected to the 2nd and 3rd Seanad but lost his at the 1943 election. He was elected to the 5th Seanad in 1944 and lost his seat at the 1948 election. He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 7th Seana ...
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