| LC control no. | no 91007450 |
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| Personal name heading | Johnson, Royal C. (Royal Cleaves), 1882-1939 |
| Other standard no. | J000173 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000173 6726970 http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6726970 16788156 http://viaf.org/viaf/16788156 Q1740321 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1740321 |
| Located | Highmore (S.D.) Hyde County (S.D.) Aberdeen (S.D.) Pierre (S.D.) |
| Birth date | 1882-10-03 |
| Death date | 1939-08-02 |
| Place of birth | Cherokee (Iowa) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | South Dakota. Office of Attorney General United States. Army. Infantry, 313th United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. House. Committee on Expenditures in the War Department United States. Congress. House. Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Legislators Soldiers Attorneys general |
| Found in | His A campaign of political deception, 1932: t.p. (Hon. Royal C. Johnson, of South Dakota) t.p. verso (Royal C. Johnson, M.C.) NUC pre-56 (Johnson, Royal Cleaves, 1882-1939) Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, August 1, 2018 (JOHNSON, Royal Cleaves, a Representative from South Dakota; born in Cherokee, Cherokee County, Iowa, October 3, 1882; moved with his parents to Highmore, Hyde County, S.Dak., March 19, 1883; attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion in 1906; was admitted to the bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Highmore, S.Dak.; assistant State's attorney of Hyde County in 1906 and 1907 and State's attorney of the same county in 1908 and 1909; moved to Aberdeen, S.Dak., in 1913 and resumed the practice of law; attorney general of South Dakota 1910-1914; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1932; during the First World War he absented himself from the House and on January 5, 1918, enlisted in the U.S. Army; served in the Three Hundred and Thirteenth Infantry as private, sergeant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant; awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States Government and the Croix de Guerre with gold star by the Republic of France; practiced law in Washington, D.C.; died on August 2, 1939, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Arlington National Cemetery) <http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000173> |
| Associated language | eng |
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