Hiram Johnson Autographs
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917 and represented California in the U.S. Senate for five terms from 1917 to 1945. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century as a leading progressive and ran for vice president on Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive ticket in the 1912 presidential election. As a U.S. senator, Johnson was a leading critic of the foreign policy of both Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Johnson was born in 1866 and worked as a stenographer and reporter before embarking on a legal career in his hometown of Sacramento. After he moved to San Francisco, he worked as an assistant district attorney and gained statewide renown for his prosecutions of public corruption. On the back of this popularity, Johnson won the 1910 California gubernatorial election with the backing of the progressive 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. Having joined with Theodore Roosevelt and other progressives to form the Progressive Party, Johnson 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 votes.
Johnson was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1916, becoming a leader of the chamber's Progressive Republicans. He made his biggest mark in the Senate as an early voice for isolationism but voted for U.S. entry into World War I. He opposed U.S. participation in the League of Nations. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1920 and 1924. Although he supported Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election and many of the New Deal programs, by November 1936 he had become hostile to Roosevelt, whom he viewed as a potential dictator. He remained in the Senate until his death in 1945.
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Traded items with a signature of Hiram Johnson
The most expensive item with a signature of Hiram Johnson (VTG SIGNED California Lieutenant Governor John Eshleman-Hiram Johnson Letter Lot) was sold in September 2020 for $100.00 while the cheapest item (Hiram Johnson CA Senator Hand Signed Letter 1919) found a new owner for $3.34 in April 2012. The month with the most items sold (1) was August 2009 with an average selling price of $12.50 for an autographed item of Hiram Johnson. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2020 with $100.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $3.34 was April 2012. In average, an autographed item from Hiram Johnson is worth $9.99.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Hiram Johnson were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 1929 Check Signed by Hiram Johnson US Senator/A Progressive Party Founder | $15.45 |  |
| 1939 California Repub Senator Hiram Johnson Autograph Signed Letter + Envelope | $39.95 | |
| California Senator Governor Hiram Johnson Hand Signed Autograph Letter | $7.00 | |
| Governor HIRAM JOHNSON (1866-1945) signed 1928 index card | California Autograph | $12.99 | |
| HIRAM JOHNSON (1866-1945) autograph cut | Senator/Governor of California signed | $12.99 | |
| HIRAM JOHNSON (1917-1945) HAND SIGNED LETTER, US SENATOR CALIFORNIA, PROGRESSIVE | $9.99 | |
| Hiram Johnson - California Governor & Senator - Autographed 1922 Letter (TLS) | $9.20 | |
| Hiram Johnson - California Governor & Senator - Autographed 1932 Letter (TLS) | $8.00 | |
| Hiram Johnson - California Governor & Senator - Autographed Letter (TLS) | $6.00 | |
| Hiram Johnson - California Governor & Senator - Autographed Letter (TLS) | $7.50 | |
| Hiram Johnson - California Governor & Senator - Autographed Letter (TLS), 1916 | $38.77 | |
| Hiram Johnson Signed Letter (1943) Senator | $16.27 | |
| Senator Hiram Johnson Signature Autograph 1942 California | $24.99 | |
| signed letter Senator Hiram Johnson 1934 23rd Governor of California | $9.99 | |
| VTG SIGNED California Lieutenant Governor John Eshleman-Hiram Johnson Letter Lot | $100.00 | |
