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Johnson (BUSHROD RUST an American)

BUSHROD RUST, an American military officer; born in Belmont co., O., Oct. 7, 1817. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1840. He saw service in the Florida and Mexican Wars, but resigned his commission in 1847, and was made professor in the Western Military Institution of Kentucky, at Georgetown. He entered the Confederate army as a Brigadier-General at the commencement of the Civil War, and in 1864 became a major-general. He commanded a division under General Lee till the surrender at Appomattox Court House. He was afterward appointed superintendent of the Military College in the University of portation," (1906); "Railroad Traffic Vol. V-Cyc-R SON JOHNSON and Rates," (1911); "Panama Canal Traffic and Tolls," (1912); "History of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in the United States," (1916); "Principles of Ocean Transportation," (1917). He also contributed many reports on economic and transportation subjects. JOHNSON signed in 1917 to go to the United States Senate to which he had been elected.

He was the most bitter opponent of the Treaty of Peace with Germany and League of Nations Covenant in the Senate in 1919-1920. In the Republican Convention of 1920 he was one of the leadthe Presidency.

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