Clarke Howard Johnson (November 18, 1851 – September 14, 1930) was a judge and state legislator in Rhode Island. He served as an associate justice of the
Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1903 to 1913 and chief justice from 1913 to 1917. He resigned upon reaching the age of 65, as required by state law.
His parents were Elisha and Matilda (Howard) Johnson. He was born in
Foster, Rhode Island and educated in its district schools as well as
Lapham Institute
The Smithville Seminary was a Freewill Baptist institution established in 1839 on what is now Institute Lane in Smithville-North Scituate, Rhode Island. Renamed the Lapham Institute in 1863, it closed in 1876. The site was then used as the campus ...
in
North Scituate. He graduated from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
in 1877 and was admitted to the Rhode Island Bar in 1879.
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He married, Ida S. Harrington December 21, 1889. He served as a Representative in the General Assembly from 1879 to 1902 and as clerk of the House of Representatives from 1881 to 1886. He was a justice of the Eighth District Court from 1886 to 1903. He was elected associate justice of the Supreme Court March 6, 1903. He was a Republican.][E.C. Bowler, ]
An Album of the Attorneys of Rhode Island
'' (1904), p. 15.
In 1921 Rhode Island College
Rhode Island College (RIC) is a public college in Providence, Rhode Island. The college was established in 1854 as the Rhode Island State Normal School, making it the second oldest institution of higher education in Rhode Island after Brown Uni ...
conferred an LLD degree on him.
References
1851 births
1930 deaths
People from Foster, Rhode Island
Brown University alumni
Republican Party members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
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