Lester Johnson (politician)

Lester Roland Johnson ( born June 16, 1901 in Brandon, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, † July 24, 1975 in Augusta, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1965 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lester Johnson attended the public schools of his home and then 1919-1921 Lawrence College. Subsequently, he studied until 1924 Economy and Commerce at the University of Wisconsin. Between 1924 and 1938, Johnson worked with his father in the timber industry as well as in the coal and seed trade. Between 1935 and 1939 he was also a senior administrative officer in the Wisconsin State Assembly. After studying law at the University of Wisconsin and its made ​​in 1941 admitted to the bar he began in Black River Falls to work in his new profession. Between 1943 and 1946, and again in 1953 he was District Attorney in Jackson County.

Politically, Johnson was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1952 and 1960 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. After the death of Congressman Merlin Hull, he was at the due election for the ninth seat of Wisconsin as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 13 October 1953. After six re- elections he could remain until January 3, 1965 at the Congress. In this time, the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam fell. At that time also the 23rd and the 24th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted.

1964 Johnson decided not to run again for Congress. In the following years, he retired from politics. He died on July 24, 1975 in Augusta, and was buried in his birthplace of Brandon.

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