Lyle Tayson: William Samuel Johnson

Artist: Lyle Tayson
1924 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1978
Image Size: 7.5 by 10.25 inches
Overall Size: 12 by 16 inches
Medium: Water Color on Cold Press Illustration Board

William Samuel Johnson was born in Stratford, Connecticut in 1727. He entered Yale College and graduated third in his class of fifteen in 1744. He continued at Yale, where he received a Master of Arts degree, and later was awarded an honorary M.A. degree from Harvard College. Legal training came next, and Johnson began his practice in 1749. After serving as a member of the town council of Stratford and a justice of the peace, he was elected to the Connecticut legislature in 1765. In 1772, he served as a justice of Connecticut's superior court and was commissioned a major in the Connecticut militia. Johnson refused to serve when elected by the Connecticut legislature in 1774 as a delegate to the first Continental Congress. During the Revolutionary War, Johnson would not support the idea of American independence from Great Britain. The Connecticut legislature elected him as a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation, and to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Johnson became one of the leading spokesmen for the "Connecticut Compromise" that resulted in a two-house Congress. In September 1787, he was appointed chairman of the Committee on Style that put the finishing touches to the arrangement and literary form of the U.S. Constitution. He then went on to accept an appointment as president of Columbia College. Also, the legislature elected him as one of the state's first two U.S. Senators in 1789. Johnson died in 1819 at the age of ninety-two.

This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for The Signers of the Constitution Collection issued on September 17, 1987.

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