Keen Johnson

Keen Johnson

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name = Keen Johnson


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order = 45th
office = Governor of Kentucky
lieutenant = Rodes K. Myers
term_start = October 9, 1939
term_end = December 7, 1943
predecessor = A. B. "Happy" Chandler
successor = Simeon S. Willis
order2 = Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
term_start2 = December 10, 1935
term_end2 = October 9, 1939
predecessor2 = A. B. "Happy" Chandler
successor2 = Rodes K. Myers
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birth_date = January 12, 1896
birth_place = Brandon's Chapel, Kentucky
death_date = death date and age |1970|2|7|1896|1|12
death_place = Richmond, Kentucky
party = Democratic
spouse = Eunice Nichols
religion = Methodism
profession = Journalist

Keen Johnson (January 12, 1896 - February 7, 1970) served as Governor of Kentucky 1939-1943. Johnson was a Democrat.

Keen Johnson was born in Brandon's Chapel, Lyon County, Kentucky and studied at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri. He served in World War I and then graduated from the University of Kentucky. He worked as a newspaper editor in three cities in Kentucky—first Elizabethtown, then Lawrenceburg, and finally Richmond—and then was elected Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1935, defeating Republican J. J. Kavanaugh by over 100,000 votes.

In 1939 Johnson defeated John Y. Brown, Sr. for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Kentucky. United States Senator M. M. Logan unexpectedly died in October 1939; Governor Happy Chandler resigned and Johnson, now governor, appointed Chandler to the vacant United States Senate seat. In November Johnson defeated Republican nominee King Swope 460,834 votes to 354,704 for a full term as governor.

As governor Johnson got the state's finances in order and increased funding for prisons, education, mental health and other social service programs. He also sought and won the first legislative redistricting in almost fifty years.

In 1960 Johnson was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate but lost to John Sherman Cooper. He died in 1970 in Richmond, Kentucky, and is buried in that city at Richmond Cemetery.

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7932901 Keen Johnson on Find-A-Grave]
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=6c8eb60771f66010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD Biography at the National Governors Association]
* [http://www.betweentherivers.org/lyon/keenjohnson.html Biography at Between the Rivers]


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