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'''Hiram Warren Johnson''' (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945) was a [[progressive]] [[Republican]] from [[California]] who served as the state's governor and U.S. senator from the 1910s to the 1940s. He was known for being mostly liberal though was an [[isolationist]] who opposed much of the [[globalist]] agenda in his time.<ref>[https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Hiram_Johnson/ Hiram Johnson]. ''Densho Encyclopedia''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref>
'''Hiram Warren Johnson''' (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945) was a [[progressive]] [[Republican]] from [[California]] who served as the state's governor and U.S. senator from the 1910s to the 1940s. He was known for being mostly liberal though was an [[isolationist]] who opposed much of the [[globalist]] agenda in his time.<ref name=denshoencyclopedia>[https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Hiram_Johnson/ Hiram Johnson]. ''Densho Encyclopedia''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref>
==U.S. Senate==
==U.S. Senate==
Johnson generally opposed the [[conservative]] wing of the GOP on domestic issues and supported some [[New Deal]] programs.<ref name=encyclopedia/><ref name=britannica/> He even endorsed Democrat [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections, though opposed FDR's 1940 campaign. Despite his support for Roosevelt's agenda on domestic matters, Johnson opposed the [[internationalism|internationalist]] agenda of the administration and voted against the U.S. joining the [[United Nations]].<ref name=encyclopedia/>
Johnson generally opposed the [[conservative]] wing of the GOP on domestic issues and supported some [[New Deal]] programs.<ref name=encyclopedia/><ref name=britannica/> He even endorsed Democrat [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections, though opposed FDR's 1940 campaign. Despite his support for Roosevelt's agenda on domestic matters, Johnson opposed the [[internationalism|internationalist]] agenda of the administration and voted against the U.S. joining the [[United Nations]].<ref name=encyclopedia/>
Having fiercely spewed anti-Japanese rhetoric,<ref name=denshoencyclopedia/><ref>[https://hilo.hawaii.edu/campuscenter/hohonu/volumes/documents/WestCoastTensionsThePushforInternmentinWorldWarII.pdf West Coat Tensions: The Push for Internment in World War II]. ''University of Hawaii''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref> Johnson infamously said:
{{quotebox|The naturalization of Japanese would be most abhorrent to our people, and, of course, be vigorously resisted . . . It is an incontrovertible fact that the Japanese continue ever Japanese, that their allegiance is always to Tokyo, and even in the event of Naturalization, they would continue alien, and their loyalty would ever be, not to the United States, but to Japan.}}
Johnson died in office on August 6, 1945 and was succeeded by the more [[conservative]] [[William Knowland|William Fife Knowland]].
Johnson died in office on August 6, 1945 and was succeeded by the more [[conservative]] [[William Knowland|William Fife Knowland]].
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