JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER (1849-1888)

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JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER (1849-1888) , American historian, was born in Brooklyn, New

York

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, on the 29th of April 1849. He studied at the Polytechnic institute of Brooklyn, graduated at Rutgers College in 187o, and was admitted to the bar in 1875 in New Brunswick, New

Jersey

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, where he taught in the Rutgers College grammar school from 1876 to 1879. He was principal of the Latin school of Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1899-1883, and was professor of jurisprudence and political

economy

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in the College of New

Jersey

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(Princeton University) from 1884 until his death in Princeton, N.J., on the 21st of July 1889. He wrote A History of American Politics (1881); The Genesis of a New England StateConnecticut (1883), in " Johns Hopkins University Studies "; A History of the United States for Schools (1886); Connecticut (1887) in the "American Commonwealths

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"; the article on the history of the United States for the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, reprinted as The United States: Its History and Constitution (1887); a chapter on the history of American political parties in the seventh volume of Winsor's Narrative and

Critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

History of America, and many articles on the history of American politics in Lalor's Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political

Economy

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, and Political History of the United States (1881-1884). These last articles, which like his other writings represent much

original

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research and are excellent examples of Johnston's rare talent for terse narrative and keen analysis and interpretation of facts, were republished in two volumes entitled American Political History 1763-7876 (1905-1906), edited by Professor J. A. Woodburn.

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