Charles Clement Johnston (April 30, 1795 – June 17, 1832) was a U.S. Representative from

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Biography

Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and educated at home, he moved with his parents to his grandfather's house, Panicello, near

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, in 1811. He studied law and was admitted to the

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in 1818 and commenced practice in

. He was elected as a

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to the

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and served from March 4, 1831, until his death by

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near one of the docks in Alexandria, DC at the age of 37, on June 17, 1832. Johnston is interred in the

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in Washington, D.C. His brother Joseph E. Johnston, was a Confederate general and also, much later, a U.S. Representative. The Johnston political family of Virginia also includes a nephew, John W. Johnston, who was a

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, and grandnephew Henry Bowen, also a U.S. Representative for Virginia.

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Charles Clement Johnston entry
at

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