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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioJOHNSON, Tom Loftin
(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.
Briggs, Robert L. The Progressive Era in Cleveland, Ohio: Tom L. Johnson’s Administration, 1901-1909
. [N.p., n.d.]
Johnson, Tom Loftin. My Story.
Edited by Elizabeth J. Hauser. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1911. Reprint, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press and Western Reserve Historical Society, 1993.
—-. Statement of Mayor Tom L. Johnson on Municipal Ownership
. [Cleveland, Ohio: Press of S. J. Monck, 19-?]
Lorenz, Carl. Tom L. Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland.
New York: The A.S. Barnes Company, 1911.
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.
—-. Tom Johnson of Cleveland.
Dayton, Ohio: Wright State University Press, 1994.
O’Connell, Kevin. Tom Johnson: The Life and Times of Cleveland’s Greatest Mayor
. [Cleveland, Ohio: Green Road Press, 2001].
Suit, William W. “Tom Loftin Johnson, Businessman Reformer.” Ph.D. diss., Kent State University, 1988.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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