David Johnson (3 October 1782-7 January 1855) was the Democratic Governor of South Carolina from 1 December 1846 to 1 December 1848, succeeding William Aiken Jr. and preceding Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook.
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David Johnson was born in Louisa County, Virginia in 1782, and he was raised in York County, Virginia and Chester, South Carolina. He became solicitor of Union in 1812 and served in the State House from 1810 to 1811, as a Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals from 1824 to 1835 and as its Chancellor from 1835 to 1846, and as Governor from 1846 to 1848. Johnson was a staunch Unionist who banned state militias from swearing oaths to the state, viewing a violation of American law as a violation of South Carolinian law. He died in 1855.