Luther Alexander Johnson

Luther Alexander Johnson ( born October 29, 1875 in Corsicana, Texas, † June 6, 1965 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1923 and 1946 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Luther Johnson attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon (Tennessee ) and his 1896 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Corsicana in this profession. Between 1898 and 1902 he was district attorney in Navarro County. Thereafter he served until 1910 as a prosecutor in the 13th Judicial District of Texas. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In June 1916 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis in part, was nominated to the president Woodrow Wilson for re-election; In 1920 he was chairman of the regional Democratic Party congress in Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1922, Johnson became the sixth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Rufus Hardy on March 4, 1923. After eleven elections he could remain until his resignation on July 17, 1946 at the Congress. During his time in Congress, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1941. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Johnson worked as a judge at the Federal Tax Court 1946-1956. This appointment was the reason of his resignation as congressman. He died on June 6, 1965 in Corsicana, where he was also buried.