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Virginia Johnson (Arkansas)
Virginia Lillian Morris Johnson (January 21, 1928 – June 27, 2007)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 was, in 1968, the first woman to seek the office of governor of Arkansas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Virginia Lillian Morris Johnson )〕
==Early years==
Johnson was born in Conway in Faulkner County, Arkansas, to Jesse Lyman Morris, Sr., and the former Frances Morgan. Her family later moved to El Paso in White County, Arkansas. Frances Morris died when Virginia was fourteen. The teenager then moved to Bee Branch in Van Buren County to live with her maternal aunt and uncle by-marriage, Mildred Boots French and Thomas Quinn French (1903–1981). Jesse Morris, meanwhile, served in the United States Marine Corps. Virginia Morris graduated as the valedictorian from South Side High School in Bee Branch and procured a scholarship to study at Draughon’s School of Business in Little Rock, the state's largest city and the seat of Pulaski County. After graduation, she was employed as a legal secretary at the law firm of Carter, Pickthorne, and Jones. Later, she worked as an under-insurance secretary in Little Rock.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Virginia Morris Johnson )〕
On December 21, 1947, 19-year-old Virginia Morris married James D. Johnson, a 23-year-old attorney from Crossett in Ashley County in south Arkansas. They later settled permanently at Beaverfork Lake near Conway. Virginia Johnson served as her husband's legal secretary for his entire legal career.〔
In 1950, Jim Johnson was elected to the Arkansas State Senate, and his wife served on the Senate staff during the 1951 and 1953 legislative sessions. In 1956, she headed her husband's successful petition drive to place a state constitutional amendment on the ballot calling upon the Arkansas General Assembly to oppose the 9-0 ''Brown v. Board of Education'' decision of the United States Supreme Court regarding school desegregation. The measure was repealed in 1990, though Johnson never wavered in her support for it. She wrote the ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette'' in Little Rock in 2005 that Arkansas people "have solid convictions and, if offered the opportunity, they will demonstrate once again that they prefer their own," a reference to segregation. She assisted in her husband's failed bid to oust Orval Eugene Faubus in the 1956 Democratic primary and in his successful 1958 campaign for a spot on the Arkansas Supreme Court.〔
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