June 26, 2009

Of the seventy-five counties of the state of Arkansas, several have been named in honor of important judicial figures. On November 16, 1833, the territorial legislature named the newest county then to be created in honor of Judge Benjamin Johnson, a judge of the Superior Court of the Arkansas Territory and later the first federal district judge for the state of Arkansas.

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