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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWaldo Porter JOHNSON
(1817-1885)
Senate Years of Service:
1861-1862Party: DemocratJOHNSON, Waldo Porter,
(nephew of Joseph Johnson), a Senator from Missouri; born in
Bridgeport, Harrison County, Va., September 16, 1817; attended
public and private schools; graduated from Rector College,
Pruntytown, Taylor County, Va., in 1839; studied law; admitted to
the bar and commenced practice in Harrison County, Va., in 1841;
moved to Osceola, St. Clair County, Mo., in 1842 and continued the
practice of law; served in the war with Mexico as a member of the
First Missouri Regiment of Mounted Volunteers; member, State house
of representatives 1847; elected circuit attorney in 1848 and judge
of the seventh judicial circuit in 1851; resigned in 1852 and
resumed the practice of law; member of the peace convention of 1861
held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent
the impending war; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate and served from March 17, 1861, to January 10, 1862, when he
was expelled for support of the rebellion; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; attained the rank of
lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Missouri Infantry; appointed a
member of the Senate of the Confederate States to fill a vacancy;
resided in Hamilton, Canada, from August 1865 to April 1866;
returned to Osceola, Mo., and resumed the practice of his
profession; president of the State constitutional convention in
1875; died in Osceola, Mo., on August 14, 1885; interment in Forest
Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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