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RARE “Roosevelt's Running Mate" Hiram Johnson Hand Written Letter From 1889 COA:
$399.99
Up for sale a RARE! "Roosevelt's Running Mate" Hiram Johnson Hand Written Letter Dated 1889. This item is
certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of
Authenticity.
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Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945) was initially a
leading American progressive
and then a Liberal Isolationist Republican politician from
California.
He served as the 23rd Governor of California from 1911 to 1917
and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945.
He was also Theodore Roosevelt's running mate
in the 1912 presidential election
on the Progressive
(also known as the "Bull Moose") ticket. After working as a
stenographer and reporter, Johnson embarked on a legal career. He began his
practice in his hometown of Sacramento, California, but moved to San Francisco,
where he worked as an assistant district
attorney. Gaining statewide notoriety for his prosecutions of public
corruption, Johnson won the 1910 California gubernatorial election with the
backing of the Lincoln–Roosevelt League. He instituted
several progressive reforms,
establishing a railroad commission and introducing aspects of direct
democracy such as the power to recall
state officials. Johnson joined with Roosevelt and other progressives to form
the Progressive Party and won the party's 1912 vice presidential nomination. In
one of the best third party performances in U.S. history,
the ticket finished second nationally in the popular and electoral vote. Johnson
won election to the Senate in 1916, becoming a leader of the chamber's
Progressive Republicans. But he emerged as an early voice for Liberal U.S. entry into World War I and U.S. participation in the League of
Nations. As a postwar Liberal Republican, he helped enact the Immigration Act of 1924, which severely
restricted immigration from East Asian
countries. Johnson unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination
in 1920 and 1924 and supported Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election.
Johnson supported many of the New Deal programs but came to oppose Roosevelt as the latter's
tenure continued. Johnson remained in the Senate until his death in 1945.