Joshua L. Johns

Joshua Leroy Johns ( born February 27, 1881 in Eagle, Richland County, Wisconsin, † March 16, 1947 in Green Bay, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1943 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Johns attended the common schools and then worked 1902-1905 in the banking industry in Richland Center. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Chattanooga in Tennessee and at Yale University and in 1906 made ​​his admission to the bar he began in Chattanooga to work in his new profession. Since 1910, he practiced in the town of Richland Center. In 1920 he moved his residence and his law firm to Appleton. In addition, Johns involved in various business enterprises. In the years 1928 and 1929 he was a member of the National Guard colonel of his home state.

Politically, Johns member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1938 he was in the eighth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George J. Schneider on January 3, 1939. After a re-election in 1940 he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 two legislative sessions. There, until 1941 more New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. Since December 1941, the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In the 1942 elections, John succumbed to the Democrats LaVern Dilweg. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. He was also president of several companies in the timber industry. Joshua Johns died on March 16, 1947 in Green Bay.