You will identify an important figure in American history from theAmerican National Biography
Onlinedatabase, available through the Liberty Library, and write a one-page biography of that
individual.
Biography 1must address an individual who was important in U.S. historybetween 1866
and 1945.
In the biography, you will properly cite the American National Biography Online at the top and writea
full, 1-page summary.The summary should not include any footnotes or other citations.
After writing the summary, you will create a bibliography thatidentifiesthree scholarly books using
the Liberty University Online Library search engine and/or WorldCat (www.worldcat.org), three
scholarly articles using JSTOR, Academic Search Complete, Academic OneFile, and/or Summon
(found in Liberty Library’s databases), and three reputable websites to create a bibliography related
to the subject of your biography. The use of current Turabian formatting in your bibliography is
required.
The purposes of this assignment are to teach you about important figures in U.S. history, introduce
you to the process of finding different sources available through Liberty University, and help you
learn the importance of proper formatting.
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Student’s Name
Date
Course
Cherny, Robert W. Johnson, Hiram Warren. American National Biography. December 2, 1999.
https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-
e-0600315?rskey=cCR7gx&result=4.
Hiram Warren Johnson, 1866-1945
The quote "The first casualty when war comes is truth" earned Hiram Johnson entry into
the record of world-famous quotes book. He uttered the words in opposition for the United States
of America (U.S.) to enter into World War I. Johnson served as California State governor and
later as a senator. He is regarded as a reformist and a contradictory political leader.
On September 2, 1866, Hiram Warren Johnson was born in Sacramento. He comes from
a family of politicians. His father, Grove Lawrence Johnson was a Republican Representative
and served in the California State Legislature. His mother, Annie De Montfredy, was a member
of the Daughters of the American Revolution. He attended public schools and later joined the
University of California, Berkeley to study a law degree. In 1888, he was admitted to the bar.
After five years of private law practice, he joined public service as an assistant district attorney
in San Francisco. His political career began at that time as part of the political reform movement
in his locality. His rise to public limelight is attributed to his successful leadership in the
prosecution of Abe Ruef and Mayor Eugene Schmitz. He took charge of the prosecution team
upon the assassination of his boss Francis J. Heney in 1908.
Johnson rose to a gubernatorial seat in 1910. He used his populist political style to bring
numerous reforms in California State. Notable among his populist reforms include the
championing of the election of U.S. senators through a popular vote as opposed to election by the
California State legislature. Another one is the call for increased democracy in California State
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with the electorates’ power to recall elected leaders. He served as a California governor for two
consecutive terms.
In 1916, Johnson won the California Senate election. It is during that time that he gained
national attention as a political leader. As an isolationist, he opposed U.S. involvement in the
World War I, and against U.S. participation in the formation of League of Nations. His
contradictory political game denied him a chance to rise to the position of president or vice
president of the U.S. Though, he did not practice political party hopping, he was popular for
endorsing candidates from other political parties other than his. For instance, in 1932 he
supported Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt as opposed to his Republican Party candidate
President Hoover. Johnson died in 1945 in Maryland and interred in Colma, California.
Hiram Johnson is recognized as one of the important political leaders that shaped the
leadership system in California State. His populist reform of recall for elected leaders helped in
2003 to recall the Democratic Governor Davis Gray and replace him with Republican Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
Bibliography
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California Museum. Hiram Johnson. 2019. https://www.californiamuseum.org/inductee/hiram-
johnson (accessed January 27, 2020).
Cherny, Robert W. Johnson, Hiram Warren. American National Biography. December 2, 1999.
https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-
e-0600315?rskey=cCR7gx&result=4.
Hamilton, Marty. "Bull Moose Plays an Encore: Hiram Johnson and the Presidential Campaign
of 1932." California Historical Society Quarterly, 41, no. 3 (1962): 2110221.
McKee, Irving. Pacific Historical Review. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950.
Miller, Karen A. J. Contributions to the study of world history. Westport: Greenwood Press,
1999.
National Governors Association. Gov. Hiram Warren Johnson. 2020.
https://www.nga.org/governor/hiram-warren-johnson/ (accessed January 27, 2020).
Riggin, Lisa. San Francisco's Queen of Vice. Nebraska: UNP - Bison Books, 2017.
Spencer C. Olin, Jr. "Hiram Johnson, the Lincoln-Roosevelt League, and the Election of 1910."
California Historical Society Quarterly 45, no. 3 (1966): 225-240.
U.S. Senate Historical Office. Johnson, Hiram Warren (1866-1945). 2019.
https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=j000140 (accessed
January 27, 2020).
Witt, Howard A. De. "Hiram Johnson and World War I: A Progressive in Transition." Southern
California Quarterly 56, no. 3 (1974): 295-305.
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