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{{Officeholder
|name=William Johnson
|image=
|party=[[Democratic-Republican]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Presbyterian]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[Thomas Jefferson]]
|terms=March 26, 1804 – August 4, 1834
|preceded=[[Alfred Moore]
|former=y
|succeeded=[[James Moore Wayne]]
}}
}}
'''William Johnson''' (December 27, 1771 - August 4, 1834) was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He was the "Court's first great dissenter",<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Chicago-Kent School of Law|work=Oyez|title=William Johnson|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/william_johnson|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> writing almost half the dissents filed during his tenure of three decades on the Court.<ref>{{cite web|work=South Carolina Encyclopedia|title=William Johnson, Jr.|format=HTML|language=English|url=http://www.scencyclopedia.org/johnson.htm}}</ref>
==References==
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