Joseph Johnson (FDNY Commissioner)
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Biography
Johnson was born on June 16, 1871, in Griffin, Georgia, to Joseph H. Johnson Sr. and Sarah E. Beeks. He first worked as a newspaper man.[1]
Johnson was appointed the 8th New York City Fire Commissioner by Mayor William Jay Gaynor on June 1, 1911, and served in that position until the end of the term of Mayor Ardolph L. Kline in 1913.[1]
Johnson was deputy New York City Comptroller and he took a leave of absence in 1918, when the United States entered World War I, to temporarily join the American Red Cross.[2]
Johnson later was Chief of the Transit Bureau of the Public Service Commission.[1][3]
Johnson was appointed as chief of the Commissioner of Public Works in 1921 replacing Clarence Fay.[3]
Johnson died at his Atlanta, Georgia, home on March 7, 1942.[1]
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