Jonathan Johnson

Jonathan Johnson (25 May 1866 – 22 May 1953) was a Norwegian teacher and politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in Christiania as a son of professor Gisle Johnson and Emilie Helgine Sofie née Dybwad. His paternal grandfather Georg Daniel Barth Johnson was an MP too. His sister married Oluf Saxe.

Johnson finished his secondary education in 1883 and graduated with the cand.theol. degree in 1887. He was hired as a teacher in Tønsberg in 1889, advancing to the upper secondary school from 1902. He took up residence in Nøtterø, where he was elected to the municipal council in 1896 (serving on the executive committee) and was elected mayor in 1898. In 1915, Johnson formally ran on a joint ticket of the Conservative and Liberal Left parties, but with another Conservative politician A. M. Rom as running mate. Again, Johnson won the first round, but without an absolute majority he faced Ole Ludvig Bærøe of the Agrarian Association in a run-off, which Johnson and Rom carried with 1,627 votes against 1,401. While Bærøe did carry comfortable majorities in Borre and Sem, the deciding factor was the vote of Nøtterø which Johnson/Rom won in a landslide of 1,006 against 97. During his second term, Johnson served in the Lagting.

Johnson was also a board member of Kaldnes Mekaniske Verksted. He died in May 1953.

Jonathan Johnson married twice. His first wife, married in 1888, died in 1894. His second marriage took place in 1897. In his second marriage to Karen Sofie Berg (1879–1961) he had the son Lauritz Johnson.