James Hutchins Johnson

James Hutchins Johnson ( born June 3, 1802 in Bath, Grafton County, New Hampshire, † September 2, 1887 ) was an American politician. From 1845 to 1849 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Johnson attended the public schools of his home. Then he ran a sawmill. 1824 and 1825 he was deputy chief of police in Grafton County. In 1826, he served as paymaster in the militia of New Hampshire. Later he got into this unit to up to colonel. Johnson was a member of the Democratic Party and was elected in 1839 in the Senate of New Hampshire. In the years 1842 and 1845 he was a State Councilor advisor to the state government.

In the congressional elections of 1844, which were held all across the state for the last time in New Hampshire, Johnson was a candidate of his party for the third parliamentary seat of government in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Randall Reding on March 4, 1845. Then, his state was divided into electoral districts. In the election of 1846 he was elected to Congress again in the fourth district. He was able to complete a total of two terms until March 3, 1849. This period was overshadowed by the events of the Mexican-American War. After the American victory came many new areas in the west and southwest of the present-day United States under American jurisdiction, including the states of Texas and California. At that time the Canadian border in the north- west has been set. These issues were the subject of many sessions of this Congress at that time.

After the end of his time in the House, Johnson retired from politics and devoted himself to his private business. He died on 2 September 1887 in his native Bath.