Henry Augustus Johnson

Henry Augustus Johnson was an American justice of the peace, sheriff, and state legislator in Arkansas.

Biography

Johnson was born in North Carolina and enslaved. He grew up in Columbus, Mississippi. As a legislator, he voted against a poll tax.
He represented Chicot County in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1891. He was included in a photo montage and series of profiles of African American state legislators serving in Arkansas in 1891 published in The Freeman newspaper in Indianapolis. Several were African American.
A park in Lake Village, Arkansas was dedicated in his honor in 2008.