Willard Arnold Johnson (August 28, 1862 – May 5, 1923) was an American politician. He served as

lieutenant governor of Texas The lieutenant governor of Texas is the second-highest executive office in the government of Texas, a state in the U.S. It is the second most powerful post in Texas government because its occupant controls the work of the Texas Senate and control ...

and as a member for the 29th district of the

Texas Senate The Texas Senate ( es, Senado de Texas) is the upper house of the Texas State Legislature. There are 31 members of the Senate, representing single-member districts across the U.S. state of Texas, with populations of approximately 806,000 per co ...

Life and career

Johnson attended the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

studying political science and journalism. In 1911, Johnson was elected to represent 29th district of the

, serving until 1919, when Johnson was elected to the Texas lieutenant governorship, serving under

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

William P. Hobby William Pettus Hobby (March 26, 1878 – June 7, 1964) was known as the publisher/owner of the '' Beaumont Enterprise'' when he entered politics and the Democratic Party. Elected in 1914 as Lieutenant Governor of Texas, in 1917 he succeeded t ...

. He served until 1921, when he was succeeded by Lynch Davidson. Johnson died in May 1923, at the age of 60.

References

1862 births 1923 deaths Democratic Party Texas state senators 20th-century American politicians Lieutenant Governors of Texas University of Texas alumni {{Texas-politician-stub