August E. Johansen

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August E. Johansen
From 1963's Pocket Congressional Directory of the Eighty-Eighty Congress
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Michigan's 3rd district
In office
January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1965
Preceded byPaul W. Shafer
Succeeded byPaul H. Todd Jr.
Personal details
Born(1905-07-21)July 21, 1905
Olivet College
Western Michigan College of Education
University of Chicago

August Edgar Johansen (July 21, 1905 – April 16, 1995) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Biography

Johansen was born in

Olivet College in 1922 and 1923, and Western Michigan College of Education in Kalamazoo in 1923 and 1924. He graduated from the University of Chicago
in 1926.

Johansen was a reporter with the

Kellogg Company in Battle Creek, from 1934 to 1944. He was an editorial writer for the Battle Creek Enquirer-News from 1944 to 1948, editor of the Lakeview News, and news editor on radio from 1944 to 1951. He was a member of the Calhoun County Tax Allocation Board in 1949 and 1950 and served as administrative assistant to U.S. Representative Paul W. Shafer
from 1951 to 1954.

In 1954, after Shafer's death just two weeks after being nominated unopposed in the

civil rights
legislation in his era.

Johansen later served as executive vice president of the Robert A. Taft Institute for Government from 1966 to 1967. He was a lecturer and writer. Johansen died in Orlando, Florida, of Alzheimer's disease.[5] He was buried at Glen Haven Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Winter Park, Florida.

References

  1. ^ "HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957". GovTrack.us.
  2. ^ "HR 8601. PASSAGE".
  3. ^ "H.R. 7152. PASSAGE".
  4. ^ "S.J. RES. 29. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BAN THE USE OF POLL TAX AS A REQUIREMENT FOR VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS". GovTrack.us.
  5. ^ "August Johansen dies at 89". The Washington Post. April 18, 1995.

Sources

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
United States Representative for the 3rd Congressional District of Michigan

1955 – 1965 		Succeeded by
Paul H. Todd, Jr.
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