{{Officeholder
|name=Hiram W. Johnson
|image=Hiram Johnson CA.jpg
|party=[[Republican]] (until 1912)<br>[[Progressive Party|Progressive]] (1912–1917)<br>[[Republican]] (1917–1945)
|spouse=Minne L. McNeal
}}
'''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.<refname=denshoencyclopedia>[https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Hiram_Johnson/ Hiram Johnson]. ''Densho Encyclopedia''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref>
==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/>
Having fiercely spewed anti-Japanese rhetoric,<ref name=denshoencyclopedia/> Johnson infamously wrote:<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>
{{quotebox-float|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.}}
This was in contrast to conservative Republicans like Colorado governor [[Ralph Lawrence Carr]] who rejected such bigotry as liberal Democrats and progressives including Johnson during [[World War II]] pushed for internment camps.<ref>Paul, Jesse (December 6, 2016). [https://www.denverpost.com/2016/12/06/ralph-carr-colorado-japanese-internment/ In Gov. Ralph Carr, Colorado has a shining light in the painful history of Japanese internment]. ''The Denver Post''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref> According to Allan Hida, who was interred during the war, such policies by President Roosevelt were because of pressure from progressives like Johnson and the atheistic left-wing Democrat Culbert Olson.<ref>Fryer, Chris (December 9, 2010). [https://www.sacramentopress.com/2010/12/09/allan-hida-shares-experience-with-japanese-internment-camps/ Allan Hida shares experience with Japanese internment camps]. ''Sacramento Press''. Retrieved June 5, 2021.</ref>
Johnson died in office on August 6, 1945 and was succeeded by the more [[conservative]] [[William Knowland|William Fife Knowland]].
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