Editing Thomas Johnson (judge) (section)

== Later years, death and legacy ==
[[File:Justice Johnson.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Johnson's gravesite at Mount Olivet Cemetery]]
His daughter Ann had married John Colin Grahame in 1788, and in his later years Johnson lived with them in a home they had built in [[Frederick, Maryland]]. The home, called [[Rose Hill Manor]], is now a county park and open to the public. [[Governor Thomas Johnson High School]] is on half of the Rose Hill property. He died at Rose Hill on October 26, 1819, and was originally buried in All Saints churchyard. His remains were removed and re-interred at [[Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick)|Mount Olivet Cemetery]] in Frederick.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.supremecourthistory.org/04_library/subs_volumes/04_c20_e.html |title=Christensen, George A. (1983) ''Here Lies the Supreme Court: Gravesites of the Justices'', Yearbook |access-date=2005-09-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050903032026/http://www.supremecourthistory.org/04_library/subs_volumes/04_c20_e.html |archive-date=September 3, 2005 }} [[Supreme Court Historical Society]] at [[Internet Archive]].</ref><ref>See also {{cite journal |last=Christensen |first=George A. |title=Here Lies the Supreme Court: Revisited |journal=Journal of Supreme Court History |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=17–41 |year=2008 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-5818.2008.00177.x |s2cid=145227968 }}</ref>

Johnson was one of the first investors in the [[Illinois-Wabash Company]], which acquired a vast swath of land in Illinois directly from several Indian tribes. Soon after his death in 1819 his son Joshua Johnson and grandson Thomas Graham sued [[William M'Intosh (fur trader)|William M'Intosh]] in the landmark Supreme Court case ''[[Johnson v. McIntosh]]''. The case, which remains one of the most important [[Property (law)|property]] decisions in American history, determined that only the federal government could acquire Indian land, so Johnson's descendants did not have [[good title]] to the property.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Eric |last=Kades |title=The Dark Side of Efficiency: ''Johnson v. McIntosh'' and the Expropriation of American Indian Lands |volume=148 |journal=[[University of Pennsylvania Law Review]] |issue=4 |pages=1065–1190 |year=2000 |doi=10.2307/3312840 |jstor=3312840 |url=https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3363&context=penn_law_review |access-date=2021-04-29 |archive-date=2021-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429115349/https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3363&context=penn_law_review |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Other schools named after Thomas Johnson include Governor Thomas Johnson Middle School in Frederick, Maryland, Thomas Johnson Middle School in [[Lanham, Maryland]] and Thomas Johnson Elementary School in [[Baltimore]], Maryland. In 1978, the [[Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge]] was opened to traffic. The bridge crosses the [[Patuxent River]] and connects [[Calvert County, Maryland|Calvert]] with [[St. Mary's County, Maryland|St. Mary's]] Counties. As Johnson was a slave owner, the naming of schools for him has become controversial.<ref>{{cite web
   |url=https://www.fredericknewspost.com/opinion/letter_to_editor/thomas-johnson-not-appropriate-for-a-schools-name/article_fdedeffe-21e7-56cf-b547-6e06b744bbe4.html
   |title=Letter to the Editor. Thomas Johnson not appropriate for a school's name
   |author=Dr. Emilie Amt Myersville
   |date=6 May 2019
 |publisher=The Frederick New Post
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   |archive-date=2020-06-26
   |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626004200/https://www.fredericknewspost.com/opinion/letter_to_editor/thomas-johnson-not-appropriate-for-a-schools-name/article_fdedeffe-21e7-56cf-b547-6e06b744bbe4.html
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   |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md-statue-removed-20170316-story.html
   |title=Maryland to remove statue of justice who affirmed slavery
   |date=16 March 2017
 |publisher=Baltimore Sun
   |access-date=2020-06-26
   |archive-date=2020-06-26
   |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626004158/https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md-statue-removed-20170316-story.html
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