Politicians
- Edward Johnson (founder of Woburn, MA) (1598–1672)
- Edward Johnson (mayor) (1867–1829), former mayor of Baltimore
- Edward A. Johnson (1860–1944), first African American elected to New York state legislature
- Edward Johnson (British politician) (1834–1895), Member of Parliament for Exeter, 1880–1885
- Eddie Bernice Johnson (born 1935), American politician
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“The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens.... Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians ... have attempted to exploit it.”
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