Sir Louis Stanley Johnson (11 October 1869 – 30 November 1937) was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician. Johnson was the son of Edward Johnson, of Hackney. He was educated privately and admitted as a solicitor in 1899, becoming a partner in the firm of Downer and Johnson, based in 426 Salisbury House,

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. (The partnership was dissolved in 1928, when Johnson formed a new partnership known as Stanley Johnson & Allen). Johnson was a member of

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. He stood for

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, twice in 1910, in the Walthamstow division of Essex. At the January 1910 general election he lost to the

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. When Simon faced a by-election in November 1910 after being appointed as Solicitor General, Johnson again failed to unseat him. Johnson did not contest the general election in December 1910, but in 1914 he became Mayor of Hackney, a position he held until 1919. He finally entered the

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at the 1918 general election when he was elected as the first

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(MP) for the newly created Walthamstow East (a division of the

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. Johnson had stood as a

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, and with the assistance of the "

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", he won nearly twice as many votes as his old adversary, John Simon. He was re-elected in

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and in

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, and stood down from Parliament at the 1924 general election. He was Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the London Regiment, and was knighted in 1920. Johnson was found dead at his home in

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with a gunshot wound to his head on 30 November 1937; the verdict at his inquest recorded that he "had killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".

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* 1869 births 1937 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 Mayors of places in Greater London Knights Bachelor People from Hackney Central Councillors in the London Borough of Hackney Suicides by firearm in England 1937 suicides {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub