August E. Johansen

August Edgar Johansen ( born July 21, 1905 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † April 16, 1995 in Orlando, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1955 and 1965 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

August Johansen attended the public schools in Battle Creek ( Michigan). In 1922 and 1923 he was enrolled at Olivet College. He then continued his education at Western Michigan College of Education continues in Kalamazoo. This was followed up in 1926 to study at the University of Chicago. Already since 1922, Johansen was a time as a newspaper reporter in Battle Creek. From 1924 to 1934 he was also a pastor in Bedford and 1934-1944 he was Manager of the Kellogg Company in Battle Creek. He was then working as a journalist again. Until 1948, he wrote newspaper articles for a newspaper in Battle Creek; Johansen then worked until 1951 in the newsroom of Radio.

Politically, Johansen joined the Republican Party. In the years 1949 and 1950 he was a member of the control committee in Calhoun County. Between 1951 and 1954 he was on the staff of Congressman Paul W. Shafer. Shafer died on August 17, 1954, shortly after he was re-nominated by his party for the U.S. House of Representatives. This nomination now went to Johansen. In the congressional elections of 1954 he was in the third electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1955. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1965 five legislative sessions. In this time, the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam fell. In addition, at that time the 23 and the 24th Amendment to the Constitution in Congress were adopted.

In the elections of 1964, Johansen was defeated by Democrat Paul H. Todd. In the years 1966 and 1967 he was Vice President of the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government. He then beta -actuated as a lecturer and writer. August Johansen died on April 16, 1995 in Orlando.