Thomas Johnson

Thomas Johnson 1732-1819, American political leader, b. Calvert co., Md. A lawyer, he served (1762-73) in the Maryland colonial assembly, where he became prominent in the fight against the Stamp Act (1765). He was a member (1774-77) of the Continental Congress, and he nominated (1775) George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental army. Johnson served as governor of Maryland (1777-79) and helped bring about Maryland's adoption of the Constitution. He served briefly (1791-93) as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Bibliography: See biography by E. S. Delaplane (1927).

Johnson, Thomas (1872–1963), Labour leader. Born in Liverpool, a commercial traveller in Belfast from 1900, he became president of the Irish Trade Union Congress (see irish congress of trade unions) in 1916 and took an active part in the campaign against conscription in 1918. As Dáil deputy for Co. Dublin 1922–7 he was the first leader of the parliamentary Labour Party. He subsequently sat in the Senate of the Irish Free State 1928–36.

Johnson, Thomas (d. 1800). English architect, he designed the County Gaol, Warwick—now the County Council offices—(1779–82), one of the earliest uses of Greek Doric in an English public building. He also built the Church of St Nicholas, Warwick (1778–9), and rebuilt St Mary's, Hanbury, Worcs. (1792–5), both in the Gothic style. The Warwick church was reputedly designed by his son, John Lees Johnson (1762– ), who was then not 16 years old, but who seems to have predeceased his father.

Bibliography

Colvin (1995)