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JOHNSON, Cave, postmaster-general, born in Robertson county, Tennessee, 11 January, 1793; died in Clarksville, Tennessee, 23 November, 1866. He was admitted to the bar, and practised law in Clarksville until 1820, when he became circuit judge. He served in congress in 1829-'37, having been chosen as a Democrat, and again from 1829 till his appointment as postmaster-general under President Polk in 1845. At the close of this administration he retired to private life, and was president of the Bank of Tennessee in 1850-'9. Age prevented his taking an active part in public affairs during the civil war, and his serving in the state senate in 1863, to which he was elected as a Unionist.
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