Glen D. Johnson

Glen Dale Johnson ( born September 11, 1911 in Melbourne, Izard County, Arkansas, † February 10, 1983 in Okemah, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1920, Glen Johnson after Paden Oklahoma, where he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1939 at the Law Faculty of the University of Oklahoma in Norman. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began in Okemah to work in his new profession.

Johnson was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1940 to 1942 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Oklahoma. In 1942 he resigned his seat to serve during World War II in the U.S. Army. There he rose up to his retirement in 1946 up to the captain. After the war, Johnson began working as a lawyer again.

In 1946 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he Lyle Boren replaced on 3 January 1947. Since he did not run in 1948, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1949. In the 1948 elections, Johnson competed unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After his time in Congress, Johnson was a member of the 1949 and 1950 national arbitration committee over the years. Between 1961 and 1967 he worked as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Interior. From 1969 to 1972 he was counsel for the Ministry of Interior in its office in Muskogee. Later he returned to Okemah, where he died in 1983.