Walter Walford Johnson

31st Lieutenant Governor

Lieutenant Governors: Jane E Norton | Joe Rogers | Gail Schoettler | Sam Cassidy | Mike Callihan | Nancy E Dick | George L Brown | Ted Strickland | John D Vanderhoof | Mark Anthony Hogan | Robert Lee Knous | Frank L Hays | Stephen LR McNichols | Gordon Llewellyn Allott | Charles Murphy | Walter Walford Johnson | Homer L Pearson | William Eugene Higby | John C Vivian | Frank J Hayes | Raymond Herbert Talbot | Edwin C Johnson | George Milton Corlett | Sterling Byrd Lacy | Robert Fay Rockwell | Earl Cooley | George Stephan | James A Pulliam | Moses E Lewis | Stephen R Fitzgarrald | Erastus R Harper | Fred W Parks | Arthur Cornforth | Jesse F McDonald | Warren Armstrong Haggott | David Courtney Coates | Francis Patrick Carney | Jared L Brush | David Hopkinson Nichols | William Story | William Grover Smith | Norman H Meldrum | Peter W Breene | William H Meyer | Horace Austin Warner Tabor | Lafayette Head |

Biography

Pueblo 1949-1950 Democrat

Born: Pueblo (April 16, 1904) Died: March 23, 1987 Married: Neva M. Morrow (April 6, 1922) Children: Walford S., Winifred

Sales representative, educational administrator, insurance executive, state legislator. Educated in Pueblo Public Schools. Member State Legislature 1941-1949; State Senate 1951-1959. Director of School District #20, 1939-1943, Colorado Commissioner Western Interstate Compact for Higher Education. Served partial term as Lieutenant Governor in 1949, but succeeded to the office of governor when Governor W. Lee Knous accepted an appointment by President Truman to the Colorado U.S. District Judgeship. After his short term as Governor he was elected again (1951) as a State Senator.