Henry Lincoln Johnson

Henry Lincoln Linc Johnson was an American attorney and politician from the state of Georgia. He is best remembered as one of the most prominent AfricanAmerican Republicans of the first two decades of the 20th century and as a leader of the dominant blackandtan faction of the Republican Party of Georgia. He was appointed by President William Howard Taft as Recorder of the Deeds for the District of Columbia, at the time regarded as the premier political patronage position reserved for black Americans.

Henry Lincoln Johnson, known to family and friends as Linc, was born on July 27, 1870 in Augusta, Georgia to former slaves Martha Ann and Peter Johnson.

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