Past President Generals
ORDER OF THE CROWN
of
CHARLEMAGNE
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dr. Hardwick Smith Johnson, Jr.

Elected 2006 ~ 2009

Dr. Hardwick Smith Johnson, Jr., twelfth President General of the Order, has been a member of the Order since 1996.  He established a new “gateway” lineage through Mrs. John Brodnax (Dorothy Beresford) of York County, Virginia. A native of Millen, Georgia, he received his B.A from Atlanta Christian College, and completed his M.Ed. from Georgia Southern University.  He then received his Ed.S. from Georgia State University and his Ed.D. from Nova Southeastern University.  He is currently a school psychologist specializing in the evaluation of learning and emotional/behavioral problems; designing interventions; and providing short-term counseling.

Dr. Johnson holds or has held office in the following societies: the National Gavel Society (Recording Secretary, 1998-2001); the Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Honorary Governor General); the National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor General); the National Society Sons of the American Colonists (Honorary Governor General); First Families of Georgia, 1733-1797 (Honorary Governor General); the Hereditary Order of the Descendants of the Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution (Honorary Governor General); the Continental Society Sons of Indian Wars (Honorary Governor General); the Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Honorary Commander); the National Society Americans of Royal Descent (First Vice President General); the Order of Three Crusades, 1096-1192 (former Registrar General and Council Member); the Order of the Crown in America (Counselor for Georgia); the Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (First Vice President General); the Order of Scions of Colonial Cavaliers (First Vice President General); the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (former Secretary General and Council Member); the Aztec Club of 1847 (former Vice President); the National Society Sons of the American Revolution (former Vice President General-South Atlantic District, former National Trustee-Georgia, former President of the Georgia Society); the General Society of the War of 1812 (former Vice-President General for Georgia, former President of the Georgia Society); the Jamestowne Society (Honorary Governor of the First Georgia Company); and the Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety of the Class of 2010).  He is a Consultant for the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.

He is a member of the General Society of Colonial Wars (Georgia and North Carolina); the Colonial Order of the Acorn; the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America; the General Society of the Sons of the Revolution; the National Huguenot Society; the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; the Royal Society of St. George; and the Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain. The President General is a Commander of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, a decorated Chivalric honor bestowed by warrant of its Sovereign Head Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.  He is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Men of America Award; the Minuteman Award (Class of 1994) from the National Society Sons of the American Revolution; the Medal of Honor from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution; the Honor Medal from the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists; and he has been named an Honorary Member of the Coweta Tribal Town of the Creek Indian Nation.

Hardwick's interests include genealogy, history, international travel, theatre pipe organ music, and Southern folk pottery.  His biography is listed in Who’s Who in America.

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