Harold T. Johnson

A Representative from California. Born in Broderick, Yolo County, Calif. , December 2, 1907. Attended the public schools of Roseville, Calif. , and the University of Nevada. Supervisor of Pacific Fruit Express Co. District chairman of Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Served as school trustee, city councilman, and mayor of Roseville, 1941-1949. President of American River Development League 1945-1949. Member of the California State senate from 1949 until elected to Congress. Delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1960, and 1964. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1981). Chairman, Committee on Public Works and Transportation (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress. Died on March 16, 1988, in Roseville, Calif. Interment at Roseville Cemetery, Roseville, Calif.