- Republican U.S. senator from California (16 March 1917 - 6 August 1945). Postponed being sworn in for his first term (which should have begun 4 March 1917), continuing to serve as governor of California. Died in office.
- Governor of California (3 January 03, 1911 - Mar 15, 1917). Resigned from office and was sworn in as a U.S. senator from California 16 March 1917.
- U.S. vice presidential nominee in 1912 on the Progressive ticket with Theodore Roosevelt.
- Candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920 and 1924. Declined GOP nominee Warren G. Harding's request to be his running mate on the 1920 Republican ticket, saying he would not let himself be chosen "for a hitching post." If Johnson had accepted he, not Calvin Coolidge, would have become president when Harding died in August 1923.
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