Charles Fletcher Johnson

Charles Fletcher Johnson ( born February 14, 1859 in Winslow, Kennebec County, Maine, † February 15, 1930 in Saint Petersburg, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Maine in the U.S. Senate.

Charles Johnson attended the public schools of his home and the Waterville Classical Institute, before he took his degree in 1879 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. After that, he worked as Head of the High School in Machias 1881-1886. After studying the law, he was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice as a lawyer in Waterville.

1892, the Democrats put him for the first time as a candidate for election as Governor of Maine; However, he was defeated by Republican Henry Cleaves. Two years later, Johnson re-entered against Cleaves, lost but this time more clearly. In the meantime, he was elected in 1893 as mayor of Waterville. In the years 1905 and 1907 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Maine.

Finally, Johnson won the 1910 election for U.S. Senator for Maine, whereupon it on March 4, 1911, the successor of not more candidates win Republican Eugene Hale in Washington DC took. In the Senate, he served inter alia as Chairman of the fishery and the Pension Committee. 1916 Johnson applied himself to the re-election, but he lost to his Republican opponent Frederick Hale, the son of his predecessor, and thus had to leave on March 3rd, 1917 Congress.

Only a few months after the end of his Senate career Johnson was nominated by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as a judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the first circuit court. Following his confirmation by the Senate on October 1, 1917 he took the place of the retiring William LeBaron Putnam, a position he held until April 30, 1929. On this day he joined the senior status, which he officially joined the Court remained, but was in fact retired. He died the following year, during a visit to Florida.