"Roosevelt's Running Mate" Hiram Johnson Hand Written Letter COA

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Up for auction a RARE! "Roosevelt's Running Mate"  Hiram Johnson Hand Written Letter Dated 1889.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Hiram Warren Johnson
(September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945) was initially a leading American
progressive
and then a Liberal
Isolationist
Republican
politician from
California
. He served as the 23rd
Governor of California
from 1911 to 1917 and as a
United States Senator
from 1917 to 1945. He was also
Theodore Roosevelt
's
running mate
in the
1912 presidential election
on the
Progressive
(also known as the "Bull Moose") ticket. After working as a stenographer and reporter, Johnson embarked on a legal career. He began his practice in his hometown of
Sacramento, California
, but moved to
San Francisco
, where he worked as an assistant
district attorney
. Gaining statewide notoriety for his prosecutions of public corruption, Johnson won the 1910 California gubernatorial election with the backing of the
Lincoln–Roosevelt League
. He instituted several
progressive
reforms, establishing a railroad commission and introducing aspects of
direct democracy
such as the power to
recall
state officials. Johnson joined with Roosevelt and other progressives to form the Progressive Party and won the party's 1912 vice presidential nomination. In one of the best
third party
performances in U.S. history, the ticket finished second nationally in the popular and electoral vote. Johnson won election to the Senate in 1916, becoming a leader of the chamber's Progressive Republicans. But he emerged as an early voice for Liberal Progressive
isolationism
, opposing U.S. entry into
World War I
and U.S. participation in the
League of Nations
. As a postwar Liberal Republican, he helped enact the
Immigration Act of 1924
, which severely restricted
immigration
from
East Asian
countries. Johnson unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in
1920
and
1924
and supported
Democrat
Franklin D. Roosevelt
in the
1932 presidential election
. Johnson supported many of the
New Deal
programs but came to oppose Roosevelt as the latter's tenure continued. Johnson remained in the Senate until his death in 1945.