John W. Johnson (1774-1 June 1854) was the Whig Mayor of St. Louis from 11 November 1833 to 14 April 1835, succeeding Daniel Page and preceding John Fletcher Darby.
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John W. Johnson was born in Maryland in 1774, and he settled in Keokuk, Louisiana Territory in 1808 and served as an Indian agent to the Sauk and Fox peoples. In 1819, he became chief justice of Crawford County at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he had become romantically involved with Chief Keokuk's daughter, whom he married. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1823 and served as its Whig mayor from 1833 to 1835, and he died in 1854.