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Valet to Abraham Lincoln (1833–1864)

For other people named William Henry Johnson, see William Henry Johnson.

William Henry Johnson (March 4, 1833 – January 28, 1864) was a freeAfrican American and a sometime personal valet of Abraham Lincoln.

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Having first worked for Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, Johnson accompanied the President-Elect to Washington, D.C. for his first inauguration (1861).^[1]

Once there, he was employed in various jobs, part-time as President's valet and barber, and later, following strife with others on the White House staff, as a messenger for the Treasury Department at $600 (equivalent to US$20,347 in 2023) per year.^[2] Johnson traveled with Lincoln in November 1863 to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.

While traveling, Lincoln experienced symptoms of the onset of smallpox. At that time, an epidemic was spreading through Washington, D.C. and Lincoln's son Tad Lin Abraham Lincoln: Biography, History, Facts and Quotes TYFY