Hiram Johnson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hiram Johnson

Governor of California

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1866

Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, United States

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1945

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Hiram Johnson

  • Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945) was initially a leading American progressive and then a Liberal Isolationist Republican politician from California.
  • He served as the 23rd Governor of California from 1911 to 1917 and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945.
  • He was also Theodore Roosevelt's running mate in the 1912 presidential election on the Progressive (also known as the "Bull Moose") ticket. After working as a stenographer and reporter, Johnson embarked on a legal career.
  • He began his practice in his hometown of Sacramento, California, but moved to San Francisco, where he worked as an assistant district attorney.
  • Gaining statewide notoriety for his prosecutions of public corruption, Johnson won the 1910 California gubernatorial election with the backing of the Lincoln–Roosevelt League.
  • He instituted several progressive reforms, establishing a railroad commission and introducing aspects of direct democracy such as the power to recall state officials.
  • Johnson joined with Roosevelt and other progressives to form the Progressive Party and won the party's 1912 vice presidential nomination.
  • In one of the best third party performances in U.S.
  • history, the ticket finished second nationally in the popular and electoral vote. Johnson won election to the Senate in 1916, becoming a leader of the chamber's Progressive Republicans.
  • But he emerged as an early voice for Liberal Progressive isolationism, opposing U.S.
  • entry into World War I and U.S.
  • participation in the League of Nations.
  • As a postwar Liberal Republican, he helped enact the Immigration Act of 1924, which severely restricted immigration from East Asian countries.
  • Johnson unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1920 and 1924 and supported Democrat Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election.
  • Johnson supported many of the New Deal programs but came to oppose Roosevelt as the latter's tenure continued.
  • Johnson remained in the Senate until his death in 1945.

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