page_title: Jeff Johnson (Minnesota politician)
section_title: Early life, education, and career
hierarchical_section_title: Jeff Johnson (Minnesota politician) / Early life, education, and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Becker county is the county of Minnesota bordering North Dakota on Fargo-Moorhead, with the latter city as a county seat. The photo shows the area around Detroits Lakes.
context_page_description: Jeff Johnson is an American politician from Minnesota. He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2000 and served there from 2001 to 2007. Johnson left the legislature to run for state attorney general in 2006, but was defeated. Johnson now serves as Hennepin County commissioner for the 7th district. He was elected as the Republican National Committeeman from Minnesota in April 2011. Johnson was the Republican nominee for governor of Minnesota in 2014, losing to incumbent Democrat Mark Dayton, and again in 2018, losing to the Democratic nominee, U.S. Representative Tim Walz.
context_section_description: Born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Johnson graduated from Detroit Lakes High School in Minnesota in 1985. He received a triple Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science/history in 1989 from Concordia College and attended Georgetown University Law School, earning a J.D. in 1992.
  Johnson then practiced at the law firms of Lord, Bissell and Brook in Chicago and Parsinen, Kaplan & Levy in Minneapolis. He joined Cargill in 1998, practicing employment and labor law until starting his own company, Midwest Employment Resources, providing employment law and human resources services to companies throughout the country.
  In 2000, Johnson successfully ran for the Minnesota House of Representatives in district 34B, winning 62.8 percent of the vote for the seat vacated by Henry Todd Van Dellen, who had retired. In 2006 he ran for state attorney general, but lost to the DFL candidate, Lori Swanson, with 40.72% of the vote.
caption: Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
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