ED JOHNSON CAMPAIGN STOP IN YUMA COUNTY
Perhaps the Idalia school in 1954 ?
Thanks to Dallas Riedesel for the photograph.
Edwin Carl Johnson, a Senator from Colorado;
born in Scandia, Republic County, Kans., January 1, 1884;
moved with his parents to a cattle ranch near Elsie, Nebraska, in 1884;
attended the rural schools; employed as railroad laborer, telegrapher,
and train dispatcher 1901-1909; homesteaded on government land in Colorado in 1910;
operated the Farmers' Cooperative Milling Elevator and also engaged in the produce
business 1920-1930; member, State house of representatives 1923-1931;
lieutenant governor of Colorado 1931-1933 and Governor 1933-1937;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1936; reelected in 1942
and again in 1948 and served from January 3, 1937, to January 3, 1955;
was not a candidate for reelection in 1954; chairman, Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses),
Select Committee on the Joseph McCarthy Censure (Eighty-third Congress);
Governor of Colorado 1955-1957; was not a candidate for renomination in 1956;
retired but remained active as a volunteer on several State commissions and
committees; died in Denver, Colo., May 30, 1970;
interment in Fairmont Mausoleum.
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