Anton J. Johnson

Anton Joseph Johnson ( born October 20, 1878 in Peoria, Illinois, † April 16, 1958 in Macomb, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1949 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Anton Johnson attended the public schools of his home and the School of Agriculture at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Between 1898 and 1901 he was sergeant in an infantry unit of the U.S. Army. After that he was in Peoria until 1913 postman. Subsequently, he worked in agriculture; there he specialized in the processing of milk and dairy products. Between 1931 and 1936 he was president of the Association of Milk Dealers in Illinois. In 1937 he became president of the Illinois Dairy Products Association. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1938, Johnson was in the 14th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Chester C. Thompson on January 3, 1939. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1949 five legislative sessions. By 1941, there the last of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which Johnsons party faced a rather negative. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. Johnson also saw the beginning of the Cold War as a congressman.

In 1948 he gave up another candidacy. Between 1949 and 1951, Anton Johnson Mayor of Macomb. He is also passed on 16 April 1958.