Sacramento County Biographies

HIRAM W. JOHNSON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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	lives ten miles from Sacramento; owns two hundred and forty 
acres of land; was born in New York in 1826, and lived there until 1840; in that 
year he went to sea, and followed a sailor's life for ten years; he was an 
officer on the Oregon, Northerner and Panama. He came to California in 1850, but 
did not settle in this county until 1863. Mr. Johnson was married in that year 
to Mrs. Phoebe Truxal, a native of Pennsylvania; she has one son by her former 
husband. His land and improvements are worth about $8,000. Post Office, 
Sacramento or Union House. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.
 

Governor.
HIRAM WARREN JOHNSON (Republican) was born at Sacramento, Sacramento County, 
California, September 2, 1866. He attended the public schools and was graduated 
from the Sacramento High School in 1884. He entered the University of California 
with the class of 1888, but left in his Junior year to engage in the study of 
law. He was admitted to practice in 1888 and practiced his profession thereafter 
in Sacramento until 1902. In 1899 he was appointed Corporation Counsel of the 
city of Sacramento by Mayor George H. Clark, and served in that capacity 
throughout Clark's administration. In 1902 he took up his residence in San 
Francisco, and in partnership with his brother, Albert M. Johnson, opened a law 
office in that city. He was nominated for the office of Governor in August, 
1910, at the first direct primary election held in the State of California, and 
elected to that office November 8, 1910; inaugurated January 3, 1911.
 
Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913