Excerpt from Life of John Albert Johnson, Three Times Governor of Minnesota It has been a labor of love to prepare this permanent record of the life of our dear friend. We were so near to him, knew him so well, were so profoundly influenced by his lovable personality and his simple greatness, that we may well be accused of bias. His passing is still so recent that a biography of him prepared at this time could hardly be expected to be critical and exact. Nevertheless, the demand for an authoritative account of the life of a man who so profoundly influenced public thought, who so strongly appealed to the popular and patriotic conception of what a public man should be, made it imperative that some account of his work be published while recollection of his personality is still fresh. We believe that it is our duty to the public to extend as widely and as soon as possible through this biography the influence that Governor Johnson would have continued to exert in person had he lived. We hope in a measure thus to compensate for his loss so early, so unexpected - a loss that those who knew him well realize was nothing less than a national calamity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.