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Born in Sweet Springs, Missouri , Johnson moved with his mother to a farm in Lawrence County, Ohio , in 1864.
He attended the common schools.
He taught school seven years.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1886.
He was graduated from the law department of the University Of Michigan At Ann Arbor in 1887 and practiced his profession in Ironton, Ohio .
He served as prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County in 1889.

Johnson was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress ( March 4 , 1909 - March 3 , 1911 ).
He was renominated without opposition in 1910 but declined to accept.
He resumed the practice of law in Ironton, Ohio .
He also engaged in banking and was financially interested in various manufacturing concerns.
He served as president of the Ohio State Bar Association in 1933.
He died in Ironton, Ohio , June 11 , 1938 .
He was interred in Woodland Cemetery.


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