[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 23, 1994)]
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                     TRIBUTE TO JED JOSEPH JOHNSON

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                           HON. MARCY KAPTUR

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 23, 1994

  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to pay 
tribute to one of our former colleagues who recently passed away, Jed 
Joseph Johnson of Oklahoma. Since 1974, he served as executive director 
of the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress and devoted most 
of his energy and intellect to building better international 
understanding of the Congress. Although he only served one term as a 
Member of Congress, much of Jed Johnson's life revolved around this 
U.S. House of Representatives. His father served as a Congressman from 
Oklahoma and Jed graduated from Capitol Page School in 1957.
  Jed Johnson truly loved this institution. As executive director of 
the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, he worked 
tirelessly on behalf of those who have served in the U.S. House of 
Representatives. Jed Johnson was always our goodwill ambassador--
working to bring foreign leaders to the Congress and teaching, always 
teaching, about representative government and democracy. I for one am 
deeply grateful for his efforts and will miss his quick smile and 
endless energy.
  Please let me extend deepest sympathies to his wife Sydney; their two 
daughters Alice and Sydney; and his many friends from all corners of 
the globe. He was a remarkable man who brought the world closer to us 
and always believed in the best instincts of people.

                            Curriculum Vitae

       Johnson, Jed Joseph, Jr., son of the late Congressman and 
     Mrs. Jed Johnson, Sr., was born in Washington, D.C., December 
     27, 1939. He attended the public schools in Chickasha, 
     Oklahoma, and Friends Seminary in New York City, served as a 
     Congressional page and graduated from the Capitol Page School 
     in Washington, D.C. in 1957; graduated from the University of 
     Oklahoma in 1961, where he was student government president 
     and a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Pi Sigma Alpha, Omicron Delta 
     Kappa, Pe-et (top ten senior men) and recipient of the 
     Letzsier Medal (top three senior men); graduate studies in 
     international relations at the Johns Hopkins School of 
     Advanced International Studies. Recipient of the Lasker 
     Foundation Fellowship to serve as national field director of 
     the Collegiate Council for the United Nations in 1961; 
     delegate to the International Student Movement for the United 
     Nations Conference at Lund, Sweden in 1961; president of the 
     United States Youth Council 1962-64; United States 
     representative to the Indian Youth Congress at Tirupathi, 
     India in 1962; U.S. delegate to the World Assembly of Youth 
     in Aarhus, Denmark, 1962; led a United States Youth Council 
     delegation to West Africa in 1963; member of the United 
     States National Commission for UNESCO; served three years as 
     nongovernmental observer at the United Nations.
       Elected at age twenty-four (the youngest Congressman since 
     1797) as a Democrat from Oklahoma to the Eighty-ninth 
     Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); special assistant 
     to the Director, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1967-68; 
     Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1968-72; Consultant, 
     Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, 1973.
       Executive Director, U.S. Association of Former Members of 
     Congress, 1974 to present; guest of the Japanese Foreign 
     Ministry on a study tour of Japan, October 1976; participant 
     in the 6th annual meeting of the Standing Conference of 
     Atlantic Organizations, June 1978, Wilton Park, United 
     Kingdom; member of a Congressional alumni study tour of 
     China, fall 1979; participant in Pacific Parliamentary 
     Seminars at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1978, 
     1979, 1980, 1981, 1983; participant at Aspen Institute 
     Seminar in Berlin, Germany, spring 1980 and fall 1982. 
     Participated in the German-American conference at the Konrad 
     Adenauer Stiftung at Cadenabbia, Italy in November 1981; 
     participant in Parliamentary meetings in Israel and Egypt in 
     the spring of 1981 and 1982; in New Zealand and Australia 
     with parliamentarians in summer of 1982; participant in 
     German Bundestag meetings and conference in Freudenberg, 
     Germany, hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, September 
     1982; meetings with the Bermuda Parliament, November 1982; 
     Salzburg seminars with German Bundestag spring 1983 and 1984; 
     German Bundestag-U.S. Congress Comparative Study at 
     ``Wingspread'' Conference Center fall 1985; meetings with 
     German Bundestag at Konigswinter, Germany, as guest of the 
     Friedrich Naumann Foundation in fall 1986 and spring 1990; on 
     the U.S. delegation to an International Human Rights 
     Conference at DeBurght, the Netherlands, January 1988; 
     seminar with German Bundestag at Villa Borsig, Berlin, 
     Germany in spring 1989; observer of Hungarian elections in 
     March 1990; and observer of Czechoslovakian elections in June 
     1990. Recipient of the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit 
     of the Federal Republic of Germany presented by the German 
     Ambassador on October 24, 1988. Participant in the 40th 
     Anniversary of the Atlantik Bruecke in Hamburg, Germany in 
     May, 1992.
       Mr. Johnson is married to the former Sydney Herlong and is 
     the father of two daughters, Alice, age 25, and Sydney, age 
     23. He is a member of the Federal City Club, the Mid-Atlantic 
     Club, the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and 
     affiliated with the ecumenical Church of the Saviour.

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