Jed Johnson, Jr.

Jed Joseph Johnson Jr. ( * December 27 1939 in Washington DC, † December 16, 1993 in Falls Church, Virginia ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jed Johnson was the son of Jed Johnson Sr., who had also represented 1927-1947 the sixth district of Oklahoma in Congress. The younger Johnson attended the public schools in Chickasha (Oklahoma ) and the Friends Seminary in New York. He then worked as ushers in Congress and attended until 1957, Capitol Page School in Washington. Then graduated from Johnson to 1961 to study at the University of Oklahoma. In 1961 he was a delegate to a UN conference in Sweden, which dealt with the international student movement. From 1962 to 1964, President Johnson of the American Youth Council (United States Youth Council ). In 1963 he led the American youth delegation at a UNESCO conference in West Africa. He also spent three years observer to the United Nations.

1964 Johnson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took on January 3, 1965 the same seat that had once occupied his father. He took over from Victor Wickersham. Since he has not been confirmed in the elections of 1966, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1967. After his time in Congress, Johnson was employed from 1967 to 1968 at the Department of Economic Development (Office of Economic Opportunity ). Between 1968 and 1972 he was member of a commission that deals with labor issues dealt equality ( Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ). In 1973 he was an adviser to a committee of the U.S. Senate, who analyzed the presidential campaigns. From 1974 until his death he headed the Association of former members of Congress.

Jed Johnson was last resident in Alexandria, Virginia, and died in December 1993 in Falls Church, also in Virginia.