Jay W. Johnson

Jay W. Johnson ( born September 30, 1943 in Bessemer, Michigan, † October 17, 2009 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1997 and 1999 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jay Johnson attended until 1963 the Gogebic Community College and then studied until 1965 at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. Between 1966 and 1968 he served in the U.S. Army. Then he studied until 1970 at the Michigan State University in East Lansing. Between 1964 and 1996, Johnson was television and radio journalist in Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. He became president of the Family Violence Center in Green Bay; He also was a board member of Easter Seals of Wisconsin, an organization which works to improve the living conditions of disabled people. He also served as Vice President of the United Way charity in Brown County. Also at the state level, he was a board member of this institution.

Politically, Johnson was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1996, he was elected the eighth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Toby Roth on January 3, 1997. Since he Republican Mark Andrew Green was defeated in the elections of 1998, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1999.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Johnson was in the years 2000 and 2001 as the successor of Philip N. Diehl Director of the United States Mint. He then worked on a private basis as coin dealer and as a numismatist for the Franklin Mint. In June 2009, he was spokesman for the company Goldline International. On 17 October the same year he succumbed to a heart attack.