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James Weldon Johnson's Life and Career (2624 words) |
 | James, Sr., spent many years as the headwaiter of the St. James Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida, where he had moved the family after his sponge fishing and dray businesses were ruined by a hurricane that hit the Bahamas in 1866. |
| James, Jr., was born and educated in Jacksonville, first by his mother, who taught for many years in the public schools, and later by James C. Walter, the well-educated but stern principal of the Stanton School. |
| Johnson, James Weldon (17 June 1871-26 June 1938), civil-rights leader, poet, and novelist, was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of James Johnson, a resort hotel headwaiter, and Helen Dillet, a schoolteacher. |
| James Johnson: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (1060 words) |
| Johnson was a cabinet minister in the government of Hugh John Macdonald, and was named speaker of the assembly in 1904. |
| Johnson was a reeve and councillor in Morton, and served as mayor of Boissevain. |
| Johnson was re-elected as an official Conservative candidate in the 1903 provincial election, and was chosen as speaker of the assembly on January 7, 1904. |
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