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Senate Years of Service: 1917-1945 Party: Republican
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JOHNSON, Hiram Warren, (son of Grove Lawrence Johnson),
a Senator from California; born in Sacramento, Calif., September 2, 1866; attended
the public schools and the University of California at Berkeley; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1888 and commenced practice in Sacramento; moved to San Francisco in 1902; active in reform
politics and assistant district attorney of San Francisco; one of the founders of the Progressive Party in
1912 and nominee for Vice President of the United States on the Progressive ticket in 1912 with
Theodore Roosevelt; Governor of California 1911-1917, when he resigned, having previously been
elected Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1916 for the term beginning
March 4, 1917, but, preferring to continue as Governor, did not assume his senatorial duties until
March 16, 1917; reelected in 1922, 1928, 1934 and again in 1940 and served from March 16, 1917,
until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., August 6, 1945; chairman, Committee on Cuban
Relations (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Patents (Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on
Immigration (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses), Committee on Territories and Insular
Possessions (Sixty-eighth Congress), and Committee on Commerce (Seventy-first and
Seventy-second Congresses); interment in Cyprus Lawn Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Johnson, Hiram. The Diary Letters of Hiram
Johnson, 1917-1945. Edited by Robert E. Burke. 7 vols. New York: Garland Publishing,
1983; Weatherson, Michael A. Hiram Johnson: Political Revivalist. Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 1995.
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