J. Leroy Johnson

J. Leroy Johnson

Justin Leroy Johnson (born April 8, 1888 in Wausau , Wisconsin , †  March 26, 1961 in Stockton , California ) was an American politician . Between 1943 and 1957 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Leroy Johnson attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1911 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . After a subsequent law degree at the University of California at Berkeley and his admission to the bar in 1915, he began to work in this profession. During the First World War , Johnson served in the US Army Air Corps . After the war, he settled in Stockton, where he practiced as a lawyer. In 1920 and 1921 he served as the assistant district attorney in San Joaquin County . From 1923 to 1933 he served as the legal representative of the City of Stockton, whose planning commission he served between 1934 and 1941. Johnson also served as a bankruptcy administrator in 1922 and 1923.

Politically, he joined the Republican Party . In 1936 and 1948 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions . In the congressional elections of 1942 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of California , where he succeeded the late Frank H. Buck on January 3, 1943 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1957 . From 1953 he represented the eleventh district of his state there as the successor to Ernest K. Bramblett .

During Johnson's time as a Congressman, World War II ended . Then he saw the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and the civil rights movement in Congress . In 1951 the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. In 1956, Leroy Johnson was not re-elected. Then he withdrew from politics. He died in Stockton on March 26, 1961.

Web links

• J. Leroy Johnson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)