Albert Johnson (Warren County)
State House: 1870-1871
Born: c. 1817 in Kentucky
Served on the Warren County board of supervisors and board of police. Johnson appears on the 1880 census in Vicksburg with wife Ann.
“Born a slave in Kentucky, Johnson was sold or taken to Mississippi in the early 1830s and worked as a plasterer at Davis Bend. He obtained his freedom before the Civil War. In 1863, Johnson moved to a plantation near Vicksburg, then lived in the camp of an Indiana Union regiment during the siege of the city in 1863.”
(Eric Foner, Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction, 1993)
Natchez Daily Courier, 10 Aug 1866
Vicksburg Herald, 28 May 1867
Vicksburg Herald, 11 Feb 1868
Vicksburg Herald, 2 Jun 1868
Vicksburg Herald, 24 Jul 1869
Vicksburg Herald, 22 Jan 1870
Weekly Mississippi Pilot, 30 Apr 1870
Weekly Mississippi Pilot, 28 May 1870
Clarion-Ledger, 6 Oct 1870
Clarion-Ledger, 10 Nov 1870
Clarion-Ledger, 26 Jan 1871
Semi-Weekly Clarion, 28 Mar 1871
Clarion-Ledger, 11 May 1871
Semi-Weekly Clarion, 1 Dec 1871
Vicksburg Daily Times, 30 Jan 1872
Vicksburg Daily Times, 2 Feb 1872
Vicksburg Daily Times, 11 May 1872
Vicksburg Herald, 12 May 1872
Vicksburg Herald, 22 Jun 1872
Clarion-Ledger, 27 Jun 1872
Vicksburg Herald, 2 Jul 1872
Vicksburg Herald, 12 Jul 1872
Vicksburg Herald, 9 Oct 1873
Vicksburg Herald, 4 Apr 1879