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Hugh Samuel "Iron Pants" Johnson (August 5, 1881 – April 15, 1942) American Army officer, businessman, speech writer, government official and newspaper columnist. He is best known as a member of the Brain Trust of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932–34. He wrote numerous speeches for FDR and helped plan the New Deal. Appointed head of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in 1933, he was highly energetic in his "blue eagle" campaign to reorganize American business to reduce competition and raise wages and prices. Schlesinger (1958) and Ohl (1985) conclude that he was an excellent organizer, but that he was also domineering, abusive, outspoken, and unable to work harmoniously with his peers. The NRA was terminated by a ruling of the Supreme Court, and Johnson left the administration after a little more than a year.〔Schlesinger (1958) pp 105–6; Ohl (1985)〕 ==Early life and military career== He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas in 1881〔〔Hamby, ''For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s,'' 2004, p. 144.〕 to Samuel L. and Elizabeth (Mead) Johnson.〔White, ''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography,'' 1967, p. 5.〕 His paternal grandparents, Samuel and Matilda (MacAlan) Johnson, emigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1837 and originally settled in Brooklyn, New York.〔 Hugh's father was a lawyer, and he attended public school in Wichita, Kansas, before the family moved to Alva, Oklahoma Territory.〔 He attempted to run away from home to join the Oklahoma state militia at the age of 15, but he was apprehended by his family before he left town.〔Crawford, "He Risked Disgrace to Speed the Draft," ''New York Times,'' June 9, 1918.〕 His father promised to try to secure him an appointment to the United States Military Academy (West Point), and was successful in obtaining an alternate appointment.〔〔〔 Johnson himself discovered that the individual who was first in line for the appointment was too old, and convinced him to step aside so that Johnson could enter the Academy.〔 Johnson entered West Point in 1899,〔〔〔Howard, "Our Twenty-one Generals of Forty Years and Under," ''New York Times,'' August 24, 1919.〕 and graduated and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Cavalry on June 11, 1903.〔〔 Douglas MacArthur was one of his West Point classmates.〔 From 1907 to 1909 he was stationed at Pampanga, Philippines, but later was transferred to California.〔〔 In the early years of the 20th century, most national parks in the United States were administered by units of the United States Army.〔See, generally: Hampton, ''How the U.S. Cavalry Saved Our National Parks,'' 1971.〕 Johnson was subsequently stationed at Yosemite and Sequoia national parks.〔 He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on March 11, 1911, and was named Superintendent of Sequoia National Park in 1912.〔 Wishing to follow in his father's footsteps, Johnson won permission from General Enoch Crowder〔 to attend the University of California (at Berkeley) where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree (with honors) in 1915 and his Juris Doctor in 1916 (doubling up on courses to graduate in half the time required).〔〔 Transferring to the Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG), from May to October 1916 he served under General John J. Pershing in Mexico with the Pancho Villa Expedition.〔 promoted to Captain on July 1, 1916, he transferred to the JAG headquarters in Washington, D.C., in October 1916.〔〔 He was promoted to Major on May 15, 1917, and to Lieutenant Colonel on August 5, 1917.〔〔 He was named Deputy Provost Marshal General in October 1917,〔〔"Col. H. S. Johnson Deputy Provost Marshal," ''New York Times,'' January 25, 1918.〕 and the same month was named to a Department of War committee on military training (the U.S. had entered World War I on April 6, 1917).〔〔"Plans to Mobilize Schools to Aid War," ''New York Times,'' February 17, 1918.〕 As a Captain, Johnson helped co-author the regulations implementing the Selective Service Act of 1917.〔 Without Congressional authorization, he ordered completed several of the initial first steps needed to implement the draft.〔 The action could have led to his court-martial had Congress not acted (a month later) to pass the conscription law.〔 He was promoted to Colonel on January 8, 1918, and to Brigadier General on April 15, 1918.〔〔〔"Promotes 10 Brigadiers," ''New York Times,'' April 17, 1918.〕 At the time of his promotion, he was the youngest person to reach the rank of Brigadier General since the Civil War, and the youngest West Point graduate to remain continuously in the service who had ever reached the rank.〔 Ohl (1985) finds that Johnson was an excellent second-in-command during the war in the Office of the Provost Marshal under Brigadier General Enoch H. Crowder as long as he was closely watched and tightly supervised. His considerable talents were effectively drawn upon in the planning and implementation of the registration and draft before and during the conflict. However he was never able to work smoothly with others.〔Ohl (1985)〕 As a Brigadier General, Johnson was appointed Director of the Purchase and Supply Branch of the General Staff in April 1918,〔〔 and was promoted to Assistant Director of the Purchase, Storage and Traffic Division of the General Staff in October 1918.〔 In this capacity, he worked closely with the War Industries Board.〔 He favorably impressed many businessmen, including Bernard Baruch (head of the War Industries Board).〔 These contacts later proved critical in winning Johnson a position with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration.〔 He was put in command of the 15th Infantry Brigade, but the unit did not deploy to Europe because the war had ended. 〔Cullum, ''Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates...,'' 1920, p. 1045.〕 Johnson resigned from the U.S. Army on February 25, 1919.〔 For his service in the Provost Marshal's office and in executing the draft, he was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal in 1926.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh S. Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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