Pete Johnson (Mississippi), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetPete Johnson (Mississippi)
American politician
Date of Birth: 12-May-1948
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Louisiana, United States
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Pete Johnson (Mississippi)
- Patrick H.
- "Pete" Johnson (born May 12, 1948) is an American politician.
- Both his grandfather, Paul B.
- Johnson, Sr., and uncle, Paul B.
- Johnson, Jr., served as Governor of Mississippi. Born in Alexandria, Louisiana, Johnson graduated from Murrah High School in Jackson, Mississippi.
- He earned a B.A.
- from the University of Mississippi in 1971 and a law degree from Jackson School of Law in 1974.
- He joined the Bank of Clarksdale as a Senior Vice President and also served as President of the Young Bankers Section of the Mississippi Bankers Association.
- He then moved into the financial planning field and formed his own firm.
- In 1984, Governor William Allain appointed him Chair of the Mississippi Marketing Council.
- He was also President of the Clarksdale-Coahoma County Chamber of Commerce and Director of the Delta Council's Community and Industrial Development Board. Johnson twice ran to represent Mississippi's 2nd congressional district in the U.S.
- House of Representatives in 1982 and 1986, in both instances losing in the Democratic primaries to Robert G.
- Clark, Jr.
- and Mike Espy, respectively.
- In 1987, he was elected State Auditor, succeeding Ray Mabus, who was elected Governor the same election.
- In early 1989, Johnson announced he was joining the Republican Party, becoming the first Republican to hold statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction Era.
- He entered the gubernatorial race in 1991 and, although considered the favorite for the Republican nomination, he came in at a close second in the primary to Vicksburg construction executive Kirk Fordice and went on to lose the runoff by more than 20 points.
- Fordice went on to defeat Mabus in the general election and became the first Republican Governor of Mississippi in 116 years. After leaving office, President George H.
- W.
- Bush appointed Johnson Mississippi Director of the Farmers Home Administration and, in 2001, President George W.
- Bush appointed him to become the first Federal Co-Chairman of the Delta Regional Authority.
- He also practices law in Clarksdale at the firm Johnson Bobo.
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