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George Washington Johnson (c. October 1846 – January 23, 1914) was an American singer and pioneer sound recording artist. Johnson was the first African American recording star of the phonograph . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His most popular songs were "The Whistling Coon" and " The Laughing Song ".
George Washington Johnson may refer to: George W. Johnson (singer), singer and early recording artist; George W. Johnson (governor), Kentucky politician and US Civil War figure; George Washington Johnson (poet) (1839–1917), Canadian schoolteacher and poet
In 1847 Johnson commenced a series of works called The Gardener's Monthly Volume, the first portion of which, on the potato, was written by himself. Twelve volumes of this series appeared. On the death of his father-in-law, Newington Hughes, banker, Maidstone, Johnson succeeded to his property, when the Fairfax manuscripts came into his possession.
George W. Johnson (governor) (1811–1862), Confederate governor of Kentucky George Y. Johnson (1820–1872), New York politician George Alonzo Johnson (1824–1903), 49er, Colorado River steamboat entrepreneur and California politician
Johnson is the author of nine books, including The Cancer Chronicles (2013), The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (2008) and Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics (1999), and writes for a number of publications, including The New York Times. He is a two-time winner of the science journalism award from the ...
George W. Johnson (December 22, 1894 – June 20, 1974) was a Minnesota politician, the 28th Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota, and a former member and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. [ 1 ]
George Washington Johnson (May 27, 1811 – April 8, 1862) was the first Confederate governor of Kentucky.A lawyer-turned-farmer from Scott County, Kentucky, Johnson, a supporter of slavery who owned 26 slaves, favored secession as a means of preventing the Civil War, believing the Union and Confederacy would be forces of equal strength, each too wary to attack the other. [1]
Johnson was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, on February 20, 1845. His father was Sylvester Johnson III, [1] and his mother was Frances Louisa Wood. Johnson grew up with two siblings, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson. Johnson was educated in the public schools of Carbondale and at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. [2]