Hiram Johnson

About Hiram Johnson

Hiram Johnson was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1891 to 1892.

Occupation: politician
Position held: member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Citizenship: United States
Born: September 7, 1839

Democratic Partypolitical party member of the Michigan House of Representativesposition held United Statescountry of citizenship

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Hiram Johnson (born September 7, 1839) was a Michigan politician of the Democratic Party who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1891 to 1892. Johnson was elected to the position of state representative on November 4, 1890. Johnson was sworn in on January 7, 1891. References 1839 births Democratic Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives 19th-century American politicians Year of death missing

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“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
— Widely attributed to Johnson, but without any confirmed citations of original source: "The first casualty when war comes is truth," remarked Hiram Johnson, "and whenever an individual nation seeks to coerce by force of arms another, it always acts, and insists that it acts in self-defense" (Locomotive Engineers Journal, February 1929, p. 109). Arthur Ponsonby earlier said: "When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty", but the first recorded use seems to be by Philip Snowden in his introduction to Truth and the War, by E. D. Morel. London, July 1916: "'Truth,' it has been said, 'is the first casualty of war.'" Samuel Johnson expressed a similar idea: "Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages." Cf. Aeschylus#Misattributed.

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Hiram Johnson

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