Claude M. Johnson was a United States

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 printer who was Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing

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 from 1893 to 1900.

Biography

Claude M. Johnson was born in Lexington, Kentucky

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 in 1852. He attended school in Lexington and New York

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.

After school, Johnson returned to Lexington and worked in the grocery and drug business. He was elected to the Lexington city council

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 and then went on to serve as mayor

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 of Lexington from 1880 to 1888.

Johnson had a long-standing relationship with fellow Kentuckian John G. Carlisle. When Carlisle became United States Secretary of the Treasury

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 in 1893, he appointed Johnson Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing

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. He held this office until 1900.

After leaving government service, Johnson worked as an Indian agent

Indian agent

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 in Arizona

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. He then moved to London

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and headed a printing company there.

Johnson died in Lexington in 1919 at age 66.