Jacob Johnson

Jacob Johnson

Jacob Johnson (born November 1, 1847 in Aalborg , Denmark , †  August 15, 1925 in Salt Lake City , Utah ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the second constituency of the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jacob Johnson came to the United States in 1854, where he settled in California and later in the Utah Territory . In 1868 he received citizenship. After elementary school, Johnson studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He then began working in his new profession in Spring City , Utah. He was also active in agriculture.

Between 1880 and 1888, Jacob Johnson was a federal district attorney in the Utah Territory. From 1888 to 1890 he was a probate judge in Sanpete County . In the same district he served as a public prosecutor from 1892 to 1894. Johnson was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1893 and 1895 he was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives. He was then from 1896 to 1905 a judge in the seventh legal district of the newly formed state of Utah.

In 1912 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention . In the congressional elections of the same year he was elected to the US House of Representatives for the newly created second district of Utah, where he served a term between March 4, 1913 and March 3, 1915. In 1914, he unsuccessfully applied for his party's re-nomination.

After ending his political career in Washington , Johnson worked as a lawyer in Salt Lake City. He died there in 1925.

Web links

• Jacob Johnson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jacob Johnson in the database of Find a Grave (English)