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Robert Ward Johnson (July 22, 1814 – July 26, 1879) was an attorney and politician, elected United States Representative and Democratic US Senator, as well as Confederate States Senator, from the state of Arkansas. Considered a member of The Family, a political network in Arkansas, he was the nephew of three Johnson brothers in Kentucky who each served as US Congressman from the state, and held other prominent business and political positions in the state and nationally. ==Early life and education== Robert Ward Johnson was born to Benjamin and Matilda (née Williams) Johnson in Scott County, Kentucky;〔("Robert Ward Johnson (1814-1879)" ), ''Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture'', accessed 12 November 2013〕 his father had three brothers who were elected as US Congressmen and the family was politically prominent in the state. His grandfather Johnson had acquired thousands of acres of land in the area at the end of the eighteenth century. The family were slaveholders. Robert Johnson's siblings included a sister Juliette. His paternal uncles were Richard Mentor Johnson, a US Representative and Senator, and Vice President of the United States under Martin Van Buren; and his brothers James Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson, older and younger, respectively, who were each elected as US Representatives from Kentucky. In 1821 when Robert was seven, his parents moved the family to Arkansas Territory, where his father had been appointed as Superior Judge.〔 They settled in Little Rock. His father was appointed in 1836 as the first federal district judge in the new state of Arkansas.〔 The boy was later sent back to Kentucky to study at the Choctaw Academy, which his uncle Richard M. Johnson had founded in 1825 on his farm near Georgetown, Kentucky primarily to educate Choctaw boys from the Southeast in the English language and European-American culture. He was handsomely paid by the federal government.〔〔(Carolyn Foreman, "THE CHOCTAW ACADEMY" ), ''Chronicles of Oklahoma'', Volume 6, No. 4, December 1928, accessed 12 November 2013〕 At times, 200-300 boys were there as students. The Choctaw students were at the school in the period prior to the Indian Removal in the 1830s of the Five Civilized Tribes, but they were under pressure in the Southeast from encroaching settlers. His uncle kept the school going into the late 1830s, after some peoples had been forcibly relocated to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.〔 The youth Johnson went on to study at Saint Joseph's College, an academy in Bardstown, and graduated. After St. Joseph's, Johnson returned to Little Rock, Arkansas, which was the capital. He studied law (read the law) as a legal apprentice and was admitted to the bar in 1835. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Ward Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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