Paul Johnson (politician)

Infobox Officeholder
name= Paul Johnson


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order= 47th
office= Mayor of Phoenix
term_start= February 16, 1990
term_end= March 16, 1994
predecessor= Terry Goddard
successor= John B. Nelson
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profession=Politician, Entrepreneur
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Paul Johnson is an American Democratic politician and the former mayor of Phoenix, Arizona.

Johnson was first elected to the Phoenix city council in 1985 at the age of 25. While serving in his second term in 1990, Johnson was selected by the council to fill the vacancy left by outgoing mayor Terry Goddard, who had resigned his office in order to run for governor for the remainder of his term. Johnson would go on to run for mayor in his own right in 1993. Running unopposed, he was elected with 99.7% of the vote.

Within 3 months of beginning his first full term as mayor, Johnson announced his resignation and intent to run for governor just as his predecessor had done. Johnson in fact ran against Goddard in the primary elections, but both lost the Democratic race against supermarket magnate Eddie Basha. Johnson would again make a bid for the office of governor in 1998, running unopposed in the primary but losing out to incumbent Jane Dee Hull by a 25% margin in the general election. [cite web|url=http://www.azsos.gov/results/1998general/GEN2000.htm|title=1998 General Election (unofficial results)|publisher=Arizona Secretary of State|date=1998-11-23|accessdate=2008-08-19]

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External links

[http://www.smartvoter.org/1998nov/az/state/vote/johnson_p/bio.html Biography]