Claude M. Johnson
United States printer who was Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1893 to 1900
About Claude M. Johnson
Lived 1852 – 1919 (aged 66–67). Claude M. Johnson was an American politician and printer.
Claude M. Johnson Jr. (December 1, 1852 – March 21, 1919) was an American printer who was Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1893 to 1900, and a six-term mayor of Lexington, Kentucky.
Biography Claude M. Johnson Jr. was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1852, to Claude M. Johnson, a plantation owner, and Rosa Vertner Johnson, a poet. He attended school in Lexington and Rochester, New York.
Johnson had a long-standing relationship with fellow Kentuckian John G. Carlisle. When Carlisle became United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1893, he appointed Johnson Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. He held this office until 1900.
After leaving government service, Johnson worked as an Indian agent in Arizona. He then moved to London and headed a printing company there.
Johnson died in Lexington in 1919 at age 66.
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United States printer who was Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1893 to 1900
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Claude M. Johnson was born in 1852 in Lexington.
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Claude M. Johnson died in 1919.
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Claude M. Johnson was a politician and printer.
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Claude M. Johnson was American.
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