Noble J. Johnson

Noble Jacob Johnson ( born August 23, 1887 in Terre Haute, Indiana, † March 17, 1968 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1925 and 1931, and again from 1939 to 1948, he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Noble Johnson attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1911 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Terre Haute to work in this profession. In the years 1917 and 1918 he was deputy prosecutor in the 43rd Judicial District of Indiana. Between 1921 and 1924 he served in the same judicial district as a regular attorney. Politically, Johnson was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1924 he was elected the fifth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Everett Sanders on March 4, 1925. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 three legislative periods.

In 1930 he was not re-elected. Another Congress candidate in 1936 was equally unsuccessful. In the 1938 elections, Johnson was then elected to Congress again in the sixth district of his state, where he Virginia E. Jenckes replaced on January 3, 1939. After four elections he could remain until his resignation on 1 July 1948 for the U.S. House of Representatives. There, until 1941, further New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were first adopted. Then the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked.

Johnson laid in July 1948 resigned his parliamentary seat after he had been appointed to a federal judgeship on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. Since 1956, he served as successor of Finis J. Garrett presided in this Court. On August 7, 1958, he entered the partial retirement. In senior status he worked until his death continue as a judge. Noble Johnson died on March 17, 1968 in the federal capital, Washington.