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  Johnson, Leroy
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AffiliationDemocratic  
  2000-01-01  
 
NameLeroy Johnson
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Atlanta, Georgia , United States
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Born July 28, 1928
DiedOctober 24, 2019 (91 years)
ContributorJoshua L.
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Dec 18, 2023 03:15pm
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InfoLeroy Reginald Johnson was an American politician who served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1975 after winning a seat in the 1962 Georgia General Assembly election. He was the first black state senator to be elected to the legislature in more than fifty years, since William H. Rogers in 1907, and the first to be elected to the Senate since 1874. He served District 38 in Fulton County and Atlanta, a predominantly black senate district created after the elimination of the county-unit system that same year. Before his term as senator, Johnson was an attorney where he played a role in Atlanta's civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was later a candidate in the 1973 Atlanta mayoral election but received few votes, despite being familiar to voters and having an endorsement from The Atlanta Constitution. The position went instead to Maynard Jackson who in turn became Atlanta's first African American mayor.

In 2017, the State Bar of Georgia awarded its highest recognition, The Lifetime Achievement Award, to Johnson during a special ceremony held in February. Johnson died on October 24, 2019 at the age of 91.


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  08/13/1974 GA State Senate 38 - D Primary Lost 47.86% (-4.28%)
  10/02/1973 Atlanta Mayor Lost 3.82% (-42.82%)
  11/07/1972 GA State Senate 38 Won 99.99% (+99.99%)
  11/08/1970 GA State Senate 38 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/08/1966 GA State Senate 38 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
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GA US President - D Primary - Mar 02, 2004 D Howard Dean