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On July 11, 1949, in Rock Springs, Johnson wed the former Helen Marie Hamm, who died in 2005. The couple had three children.<ref name=obit/>
On July 11, 1949, in Rock Springs, Johnson wed the former Helen Marie Hamm, who died in 2005. The couple had three children.<ref name=obit/>
==Law, politics, civic leadership==
==Law, politics, and civic leadership==
In 1961, at the age of forty-five, he left the newspaper business to attend law school at the University of Wyoming. He returned to Rock Springs, a heavily Democratic community, to practice law from 1963 until retiring in 1996. His state Senate service spanned three four-year terms, including two years as the Democratic floor leader and two others as the chairman of the Senate Labor Committee. He also chaired a special committee to rewrite the Wyoming education code. He was the floor leader for House Bill 208, which expanded the trona industry. In 1972, he was a delegate to the [[Democratic National Convention]] in Miami Beach, [[Florida]], which nominated then [[U.S. Senator]] [[George McGovern]] of [[South Dakota]] to challenged [[U.S. President]] [[Richard Nixon]], who won Wyoming in all three of his presidential bids. He was an alternate delegate to several other Democratic conventions.<ref name=obit/>
In 1961, at the age of forty-five, he left the newspaper business to attend law school at the University of Wyoming. He returned to Rock Springs, a heavily Democratic community, to practice law from 1963 until retiring in 1996. His state Senate service spanned three four-year terms, including two years as the Democratic floor leader and two others as the chairman of the Senate Labor Committee. He also chaired a special committee to rewrite the Wyoming education code. He was the floor leader for House Bill 208, which expanded the trona industry. In 1972, he was a delegate to the [[Democratic National Convention]] in Miami Beach, [[Florida]], which nominated then [[U.S. Senator]] [[George McGovern]] of [[South Dakota]] to challenged [[U.S. President]] [[Richard Nixon]], who won Wyoming in all three of his presidential bids. He was an alternate delegate to several other Democratic conventions.<ref name=obit/>