Jacob Johnson (U.S. politician)

Jacob Johnson ( born November 1, 1847 in Aalborg, Denmark, † August 15 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jacob Johnson came to the United States, where he settled down in California and later in the Utah Territory in 1854. In 1868 he received the citizenship. After primary school, Johnson studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1877. Then he began to work in his new profession in Spring City in Utah Territory. Besides, he was also active in agriculture.

Between 1880 and 1888 was Jacob Johnson Federal District Attorney in the Utah Territory. From 1888 to 1890 he was a judge in a probate court in Sanpete County. Within the district, he served from 1892 to 1894 as a prosecutor. Johnson was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1893 and 1895 he was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives. After that, he was from 1896 to 1905 judge in the seventh judicial district of the now newly formed State of Utah.

In 1912 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In the congressional elections of the same year he was elected for the newly created second district of Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he completed a term of between 4 March 1913 and 3 March 1915. In 1914 he applied unsuccessfully to the re- nomination of his party.

After the end of his political career in Washington, Johnson worked as a lawyer in Salt Lake City. He is also passed in 1925.