“Mississippi Governor” Paul B. Johnson Jr Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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“Mississippi Governor” Paul B. Johnson Jr Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Paul Burney Johnson Jr.
(January 23, 1916 – October 14, 1985) was an American attorney and
Democratic
politician
from
Mississippi
, serving as governor from 1964 until January 1968. He was a son of former Mississippi
Governor
Paul B. Johnson Sr.
Paul B. Johnson Jr. grew up in a political family, as his father was a notable Democratic Party leader, serving as US Congressman from 1919 to 1923. The younger Johnson had an affectionate reverence for
Franklin D. Roosevelt
based on the days of his Congressman father's friendship with the then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy. (The families' children knew each other). In 1938, Johnson Sr. was elected as Governor of Mississippi, dying in office in 1943.Johnson attended local schools, which were
segregated under
Jim Crow
laws. He graduated from the
University of Mississippi
, where he met his college sweetheart Dorothy Power. During his first year at
Ole Miss
, he was a member of the freshman Ole Miss football team and was initiated into
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
social fraternity. He had the distinction of being the only sophomore ever elected as president of the Ole Miss student body. He also graduated from
Ole Miss Law
and passed the bar exam.