William Ward Johnson (March 9, 1892 - June 8,
1963) was a
U.S. Representative from
California
.
Born in
Brighton
, Washington
County, Iowa
, Johnson attended the public school at Brighton
and at Twin Falls,
Idaho
, and the University of
California at Berkeley
in 1913 and 1914.He was graduated from
the law school of the University of Southern
California
at Los Angeles
in 1925.He served as member of the
Idaho National Guard in 1910 and 1911.
After
that, he worked as bookkeeper, stenographer, and manager of an
automobile company at Montpelier, Idaho
, and Price,
Utah
from 1912 to 1918.He engaged in the
mercantile business in Idaho
and Utah
from 1918 to
1922.He also engaged in the banking and oil
business at Twin Falls,
Idaho
, and Long Beach, California
.He was
admitted to the
bar in 1925 and commenced practice as a
lawyer in Long Beach.
Johnson was elected as a
Republican to the
Seventy-seventh and
Seventy-eighth Congresses
(January 3, 1941-January 3, 1945). He was an unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1944 to the
Seventy-ninth Congress.
He resumed
the practice of law in Long Beach, California
, until his death there on June 8, 1963.He
was interred in Sunnyside
Mausoleum.
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