Governor Lewis Morris Succeeded by Samuel Nevill Succeeded by Thomas Farmar Name Andrew Johnston | Preceded by Joseph Bonnel Preceded by Thomas Gordon Preceded by John Johnstone | |
Andrew Johnston was a politician from Perth Amboy, New Jersey who served in the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Provincial Council.
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Biography
Andrew Johnston was born on December 20, 1694 to John and Euphame Scot Johnstone. His maternal grandfather was George Scot of Pitlochie. The children of John Johnstone dropped the final "e" from their name.
Until 1717 or 1718 he was a merchant in New York City, subsequently relocating to Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Andrew Johnston represented the City of Perth Amboy with his father in the ninth New Jersey General Assembly (1727–1729 Legislative Session). After the elder Johnstone's death in 1732, Andrew Johnston took his father's seat in the tenth Assembly for the 1733 seating. After this, the Assembly did not meet until 1738, when Governor Lewis Morris called new elections and the eleventh Assembly was seated. Johnston would serve in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth Assemblies (1738–1744), and was Speaker during the twelfth and thirteenth. (1740–1744)
After his service in the General Assembly, on June 19, 1745 Andrew Johnston was appointed a member of the New Jersey Provincial Council, where he would serve until his death.
In 1747 Andrew Johnston was serving as Mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
In 1748/9 he was named Treasurer of the College of New Jersey.
Perth Amboy Constituency
The 1702 royal instructions to Governor Viscount Cornbury named the Town of Perth Amboy as a constituency, apportioned two members to the New Jersey General Assembly. In 1718 Perth Amboy was granted city status; the same apportionment continued until the adoption of the New Jersey Constitution of 1776, which apportioned the entire New Jersey Legislature by county, thereby abolishing separate representation for cities.