Thomas Johnson (July 4, 1812 – April 7, 1906) was a prominent

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politician. He was born in

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and represented the state in the

Provisional Confederate Congress The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, fully the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, was a unicameral congress of deputies and delegates called together from the Southern States which became the governing ...

. Johnson served as an officer in the

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during the

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. After the war he served in the

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from 1875 to 1877 and in the

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from 1877 to 1881.Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.)
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1812 births 1906 deaths Confederate States Army officers Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States Democratic Party Kentucky state senators Democratic Party members of the Kentucky House of Representatives People from Montgomery County, Kentucky 19th-century members of the Kentucky General Assembly {{kentucky-politician-stub