Albert Johnson (politician)

Albert Johnson

Albert Johnson (* 5. March 1869 in Springfield , Illinois ; † 17th January 1957 in American Lake , Washington ) was an American politician who the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives represented.

Life

After his birth in Illinois Johnson attended elementary school and high school in Atchison and Hiawatha ( Kansas ). From 1888 to 1891 he worked in Missouri as a reporter for the St. Joseph Herald and then for the St. Louis Globe Democrat , in 1896 and 1897 as executive editor of the New Haven Register and in 1898 as editor of the Washington Post . In 1898 he went to Tacoma, Washington for the Tacoma News and in 1907 he became editor and publisher of the Grays Harbor Washingtonian in Hoquiam .

politics

Albert Johnson was elected for the first time as a member of the Republican Party in the 63rd Congress , where he first represented the second and later the third electoral district of his state for the following ten terms from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1933. In the November election In 1932 Johnson was defeated by the Democrat Martin F. Smith .

Despite his position as Congressman, he served as a captain in a chemical combat unit during World War I and was honorably discharged from the army on November 29, 1918. He chaired the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization from 66th to 71st Congresses , where he played an important role in enforcing anti-immigration legislation of the 1920s. Johnson was the lead author of the Immigration Act of 1924 , which he defended in 1927 as a bulwark against "a torrent of alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions about the relationship between government and the governed" .

Johnson retired from the newspaper business in 1934. He died on January 17, 1957 in a veterans' home in American Lake and was buried in Sunset Memorial Park , Hoquiam.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ "[...] a stream of alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions respecting the relationships of the governing power to the governed." Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door . Boston & New York City: Hill and Wang. 2004. page 55.

swell

• Daniels, Roger. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 . Boston & New York City: Hill and Wang, 2004.
• Albert Johnson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)