Description: Signed Ltd Numbered~ Life of John Albert Johnson ~ Minnesota Gov x3 Leather Gilt Biography of John Albert Johnson, Three Times Governor of Minnesota. This copy is number 43 of a limited autographed condition. Personalized on the bottom of the limitation page to Alvin H Poehler, who served as Colonel on Governor Johnson's staff for over five years. Above the inscription to Col Poehler is a stamped date, April 1, 1910.Forbes & Company publisher, Chicago, ©1910, first edition.Leather hardcover with gilt lettering and illustration. Light wear to leather edges, and light scuffing to back cover. Top edge gilt. Spine lightly cocked. Decorative endpapers. Pages lightly toned, but clean, bright and tight. No tears or writing. Illustrated with photos throughout. Measures 8 1/2 by 6 inches and is 429 pages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About:John Albert Johnson (July 28, 1861 – September 21, 1909) was an American politician. He served in the Minnesota State Senate from January 1897 to January 1901. He was the 16th governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1905, until his death on September 21, 1909. He was a Democrat.Johnson was the first Minnesota governor born in Minnesota. He was only the second non-Republican governor in the previous 50 years and the third since statehood. He was also first to serve a full term in the present state capitol, and the first to die in office. Johnson sought the 1908 Democratic presidential nomination but lost to William Jennings Bryan.Johnson was the first of three governors to die in office. Governor Winfield Scott Hammond was the second, after suffering a stroke in 1915. Floyd B. Olson was the third and most recent, dying of cancer in 1936.Statues of Johnson are on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol and the grounds of the Nicollet County Courthouse. Johnson Senior High School in St. Paul is named for him, as is the portion of U.S. Route 169 from Saint Peter to the Twin Cities. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog
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