Edwin Stockton Johnson Biography


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JOHNSON, Edwin Stockton, a Senator from South Dakota; born near Spencer, 
Owen County, Ind., February 26, 1857; moved with his parents to Osceola, 
Iowa, in 1857; attended the public schools; engaged in the mercantile 
business; moved to Wheeler County, Nebr., in 1880; homesteaded and engaged 
in agricultural pursuits; returned to Osceola, Iowa, in 1881 and was 
employed as a bank cashier; established the Citizens' Bank of Grand View, 
S. Dak., in 1884; moved to Armour, Douglas County, S. Dak., in 1886 and 
engaged in banking; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; later established 
a number of banks in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa; studied law; was 
admitted to the bar in 1888 and practiced; prosecuting attorney of Douglas 
County in 1892 and 1893; served as a Republican in the State senate in 1894 
and 1895; affiliated with the Democratic Party in 1896; chairman of the 
Democratic State central committee 1902-1904; retired from the banking 
business in 1902 and engaged in the real estate and loan business at Platte, 
S. Dak.; member of the Democratic National Committee 1904-1916; unsuccessful 
Democratic candidate for Governor in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the United 
States Senate in 1914 and served from March 4,1915, to March 3, 1921; declined 
to be a candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed his activities in the real 
estate and loan business; died in Platte, S. Dak., July 19,1933, interment 
in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Armour, S. Dak.