THOMAS JOHNSON
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During the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton, later first U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, played a minor role due to his extreme views on the monarchy. A fellow delegate remarked that
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Thomas Johnson was an 18th-century American judge and politician who participated in several ventures to support the Revolutionary War. Johnson was the first (non-Colonial) governor of Maryland, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and an associate justice of the Supreme Court. He was the first person appointed to the court after its original organization and staffing with six justices. Johnson's tenure on the Supreme Court lasted only 163 days, which makes him the shortest-serving justice in U.S. history.
