Johnston was a senator from Louisiana and was (unknown party). He served from 1831 to 1833.
He was previously a senator from Louisiana as an Adams from 1825 to 1831; a senator from Louisiana as an Adams from 1824 to 1825; and the representative for Louisiana’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1821 to 1823.
![Photo of Sen. Josiah Johnston [?-LA, 1831-1833]](/static/legislator-photos/406089-200px.jpeg)
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
