Fred Gustus Johnson

Fred Gustus Johnson ( born October 16, 1876 at Dorchester, Saline County, Nebraska, † April 30, 1951 in Hastings, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1931 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Fred Johnson attended the public schools of his home and graduated in 1893, the Dorchester High School. After studying law at the University of Nebraska and its made ​​in 1903 admitted to the bar he began in Dorchester to work in his new profession. In addition, he worked in agriculture. In 1909, Johnson moved to Oxford in 1911 to Hastings, Nebraska, where he also worked as a lawyer.

Politically, Johnson was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1907 and 1909, and again from 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Nebraska; 1919 to 1920 he also belonged to the State Senate. After that he was in the years 1923 and 1924 lieutenant governor of his state. Between 1900 and 1938 he was a delegate at all party conferences of the Republicans in Nebraska.

1928 Fred Johnson was selected in the fifth district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1929 Ashton Shallenberger. But since he lost to Shallenberger already at the next election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1931. In 1932, another failed candidacy for the House of Representatives.

After the end of his time in Congress, Johnson worked as a lawyer again. He also became involved in the real estate market. Between 1934 and 1938 he led an agricultural enterprise in Hastings. From 1941 to 1943 he lived in Charleston (Mississippi), where he also ran a farm. From 1945 until his death was Judge Johnson in Adams County, Nebraska.