John Johnson (c. May 27, 1776 – July 15, 1817 or September 17, 1817) was a justice of the

Indiana Supreme Court The Indiana Supreme Court, established by Article 7 of the Indiana Constitution, is the highest judicial authority in the state of Indiana. Located in Indianapolis, the Court's chambers are in the north wing of the Indiana Statehouse. In Dec ...

from December 28, 1816, to September 10, 1817. Born in

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

, Johnson "was an active early Indiana politician" who "worked on the 1806 codification of Indiana law and was a Knox County delegate to the 1816 Indiana Constitutional Convention".Browning, Minde C., Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt,
Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices
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Indiana Law Review Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (IU McKinney) is the law school of Indiana University Indianapolis, a public research university in Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has been based in Lawrence W. Inlow Hall in Indianapolis ...

'', Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997). Johnson was one of the first group of three justices appointed to serve on the Indiana Supreme Court after Indiana achieved statehood on December 11, 1816. However, he died "during the first recess of the Indiana Supreme Court and before any significant opinions were delivered".

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