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Gardiner Johnson

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-06-1934 Republican AD-19 15073 Win
11-03-1936 Republican AD-19 23604 Win
11-08-1938 Republican AD-19 25514 Win
11-05-1940 Republican AD-19 30696 Win
11-03-1942 Republican AD-18 28746 Win
11-07-1944 Republican AD-18 30391 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: August 10, 1905 in San Jose, CA
Married: Doris Louise Miller (m. 1935)
Children: Jacqueline Ann and Stephen Miller
Died: March 3, 1990 in San Francisco, CA

1940: Speaker pro Tem, California State Assembly (Special Session)

  • FATHER OF THE CODE: Johnson and George P. Miller authored AB 1843 (1939), which established the California Revenue and Taxation Code.

Source: California Blue Book (1938)