Jed Johnson Sr.

Jed Johnson senior, 1921

Jed Joseph Johnson Sr. (born July 31, 1888 in Waxahachie , Ellis County , Texas , †  May 8, 1963 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1927 and 1947 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jed Johnson attended public schools in Texas and Oklahoma. He then studied until 1915 at the University of Oklahoma in Norman law. After his admission to the bar in 1918, he began to work in his new profession in Walters, Oklahoma. During the First World War he was used as a soldier in the US Army in France . After the war, Johnson was a newspaper publisher in Cotton County , Oklahoma, from 1920 to 1922 . He became a member of the Democratic Party and sat in the Oklahoma Senate from 1920 to 1927 . In 1927, 1929 and 1937 he was a delegate to theInter-parliamentary union in Paris and Geneva .

In 1926 Johnson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he replaced Elmer Thomas , who had moved to the Senate , on March 4, 1927 . After he was confirmed in his mandate in the following nine elections, he was able to complete a total of ten legislative periods in Congress by January 3, 1947 . In 1946 he was no longer nominated by his party. After his time in Congress, he was in 1947 as a judge at the Federal Customs Court ( United States Customs Court busy). He held this office until his death in 1963. His son Jed was also a Congressman for the Sixth District of Oklahoma from 1965 to 1967.

Web links

• Jed Johnson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Jed Johnson in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

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