Governor
Johnson was sworn in as the fourth governor of California on January 9, 1856. Taking office at age of 30, Johnson remains the youngest to have done so in California history. Upon assuming the office, Johnson inherited a growing state debt left over from the Bigler administration. Johnson sought nearly immediately to reduce government expenditures in the hope of cutting the debt.
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Famous quotes containing the word governor:
“There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, or the hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.”
—Lillie Devereux Blake (1835–1913)