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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioTom Loftin JOHNSON
(1854-1911)
JOHNSON, Tom Loftin, a
Representative from Ohio; born in Georgetown, Scott County, Ky.,
July 18, 1854; moved to Indiana in boyhood; attended the public
schools; employed in a rolling mill; clerk in a street-railway
office in Louisville, Ky., 1869-1875; later became secretary of the
company; invented several street-railway devices; purchased a
street railway in Indianapolis, Ind.; later acquired large
street-railway interests in Cleveland, Detroit, and Brooklyn;
settled in Cleveland, Ohio; became interested in rolling mills and
iron manufacturing; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election
in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3,
1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the
Fifty-fourth Congress; mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, 1901-1909;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1909; unsuccessful
Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1903; died in
Cleveland, Ohio, April 10, 1911; interment in Greenwood
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Massouh, M. “Innovations in Street Railways Before Electric
Traction: Tom L. Johnson’s Contributions.”
Technology and Culture 18 (April 1977): 202-17; Murdock,
Eugene C. “Life of Tom L. Johnson.” Ph.D. diss.,
Columbia University, 1951.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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