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John A. Johnson - The People's Governor (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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John A. Johnson - The People's Governor (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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John A. Johnson was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive
Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books
once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions.The first
native-born governor of Minnesota, and the only Democrat to have
been elected to that office three times, was also the first
Minnesotan to have a presidential nomination within his grasp.This
study of a man who was, perhaps, the state's most beloved chief
executive is a warm, fast-moving personal biography and an
engrossing piece of political history.The issues, personalities,
shifting political currents, and party cleavages, state and
national, of the early 1900s live again in the full recounting of
the political campaigns of that era. One chapter is devoted to the
1908 Democratic National Convention at which Johnson's name was
place in nomination for the presidency--the convention which chose
William Jennings Bryan as its standard-bearer for the third and
last time.Johnson was a man of buoyant spirit and great personal
charm, and the story of his life again dramatizes the American
tradition that by force of character a man can lift himself from
the humblest beginnings. At the time of his death in 1909 the
warships in New York harbor dropped their flags to half-mast, and
hundreds of memorial services were held throughout the nation. Many
believed that, had he lived, Johnson would have won the
presidential nomination and election in 1912.
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