Otis Wells Johnson | |
State: | Wisconsin |
State Senate: | Wisconsin |
District: | 3rd |
Term Start: | January 5, 1903 |
Term End: | January 7, 1907 |
Predecessor: | John F. Reynolds |
Successor: | Isaac T. Bishop |
Party: | Republican |
Birth Date: | 12 March 1855 |
Birth Place: | Saugatuck, Michigan, U.S. |
Death Place: | Racine, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Restingplace: | Mound Cemetery, Racine |
Occupation: | Manufacturer, banker |
Spouse: | married |
Otis Wells Johnson (March 12, 1855 - September 27, 1926) was an American manufacturer, banker, and Republican politician. He represented Racine and Kenosha counties in the Wisconsin Senate during the 1903 and 1905 sessions.[1]
He attended public schools, and later the University of Maine at Farmington.[2] He was first employed in the lumber industry in St. Ignace, Michigan, later for a while in a Chicago lumberyard, and afterwards at St. Ignace again, where he resided until he came to Racine, Wisconsin in 1890 where he engaged in the manufacture of farm wagons.[3]
Johnson was elected to the Senate as a member of the Republican Party and served from 1903 to 1907.[4]