Lycurgus Johnson

Lycurgus Johnson
Born	Lycurgus Leonidas Johnson March 22, 1818 Scott County, Kentucky
Died	August 1, 1876 Wilmington, Delaware
Residence	Lakeport Plantation
Occupation	Planter, politician
Spouse(s)	Lydia Taylor
Children	12
Parent(s)	Joel Johnson Verlinda Offutt Johnson
Relatives	Robert Johnson (paternal grandfather) Richard Mentor Johnson (uncle) Benjamin Johnson (uncle) Henry Johnson (uncle) Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley (cousin) Robert Ward Johnson (cousin)

Lycurgus Johnson (1818-1876) was an American cotton planter and large slaveholder in the Arkansas Delta during the Antebellum South. He was the owner of the Lakeport Plantation in Chicot County, Arkansas. He became the largest cotton producer in Chicot County by 1870. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1874.

Lycurgus Johnson was born on March 22, 1818 in Scott County, Kentucky. His father, Joel Johnson, was a Kentucky-born plantation owner along the shores of Lake Chicot in the Arkansas Delta. His mother was Verlinda Offutt Johnson. He had eight siblings.

His paternal grandfather, Robert Johnson, was a surveyor in Kentucky. One of his paternal uncles, Richard Mentor Johnson, served as the ninth Vice President of the United States under President Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841. Another uncle, Benjamin Johnson, served as a United States federal judge in Arkansas. Yet another uncle, Henry Johnson, became a large landowner and slaveholder in Mississippi, whose daughter, Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley (Johnson's cousin), became the owner of the Mount Holly plantation on Lake Washington.

Johnson acquired land in Chicot County, Arkansas for agricultural development in the mid-1830s. In 1857, he inherited his father's plantation, known as Lakeport. Together with his original landholdings, he owned 4,000 acres in the Arkansas Delta by 1860.

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