Chapman Johnson

Chapman Johnson (March 12, 1777 – July 12, 1849) was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia.

He was elected Mayor of Staunton in 1808, and then served in the Virginia state Senate beginning in 1811 through 1831 from a district made up of Augusta, Rockbridge and Pendleton Counties.

[2] In the War of 1812, Johnson was the elected captain of a volunteer company and was appointed aide to General James Breckinridge.

[5] During the debates, he was a floor leader for the White Basis Party in the Convention, seeking reapportionment of the state legislature to represent citizens only, without weighting the legislature by counting slaves held as property.

The existing regime made the eastern slave-holding counties a permanent majority in the General Assembly opposing direct election of the Governor and internal improvements to connect the western and eastern regions of the state.