A collection of quotes from Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson taken from her fifty years of public service…

Known as “The Gentlewoman from Texas,” Congresswoman Johnson is widely recognized as one of the most effective legislators in Congress, she is credited with originally authoring of co-authoring more than 300 bills that were passed by the Senate, passed by the House, and signed into law by the President.

Johnson was the first African American to serve as Chief Psychiatric Nurse at the Dallas Veterans Administration Hospital. In 1972, as an underdog candidate running for a seat in the Texas House, Johnson won a landslide victory. She was the first black woman ever elected to public office from Dallas. Johnson left the State House in 1977, when President Jimmy Carter appointed her as the regional director for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the first African-American woman to hold this position. Johnson entered electoral politics again in 1986, when she was elected as a Texas State Senator. She was the first woman and the first African American from the Dallas area to hold this office since Reconstruction. In 1992 Johnson was elected to the United States Congress representing the newly created 30th Congressional District becoming the first woman and the first African-American to hold this position. In 2019 Johnson became the Chair of the House Committee on Science Space & Technology, the first woman and the first African American to hold that position.

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ISBN 979-8-88955-701-2

Published by 1814 MAGAZINE 2023