Fred W. Johnson
American government official
About Fred W. Johnson
Fred W. Johnson was an American government official who served as the first director of the Bureau of Land Management from 1946 to 1948. Johnson had previously served as the final commissioner of the United States General Land Office, from 1933 until 1946.
After the General Land Office was dissolved in 1946, he was selected to serve as the newly created Bureau of Land Management's director by then-Interior Secretary Julius Albert Krug.
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