Charles Phillip Johnson

Charles Phillip Johnson (born January 18, 1836 in Lebanon , Illinois , †  May 21, 1920 ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Missouri .

Career

Before he turned 18, Charles Johnson was in the newspaper industry. From 1855 he lived in St. Louis . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1857, he began to work in this profession. In 1859 he became a legal representative for the city of St. Louis. Politically, he was initially a member of the Free Soil Party . He later joined the Republican Party . When the civil war broke out , he helped to raise troops for the Union army . In 1862 he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives, where he became chairman of the committee on emancipation . He also prepared the bill to convene a constitutional convention. He later became a district attorney in his homeland. In the run-up to the presidential election of 1872 , he joined a split from his party, the short-lived Liberal Republican Party , which unsuccessfully voted against the re-election of President Ulysses S. Grant .

In 1872 Johnson was elected lieutenant governor of Missouri alongside Silas Woodson . He held this office between January 3, 1873 and January 12, 1875. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . After serving as lieutenant governor, he worked with his brother in a joint law firm. He was again a member of the state parliament, where he campaigned, among other things, for laws to combat gambling. As a criminal defense attorney, he obtained an acquittal for the gunslinger Frank James , brother of Jesse James, in 1883 . Meanwhile, Johnson also served on the law school at Washington University . He died on May 21, 1920.

Web links

• Charles Phillip Johnson in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard