Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Royal Cleaves Johnson (3 October 1882 2 August 1939) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota. He was born in Cherokee, Iowa in 1882. He moved with his parents to Highmore, South Dakota in 1883, and attended the public schools. He graduated from the law department of the University of South Dakota in 1906, and was admitted to the bar that same year. He started his practice in Highmore. He became the assistant state''s attorney for Hyde County in 1906, and State''s Attorney in 1908 and 1909. In 1910, he became the Attorney General of South Dakota. In 1913, he moved to Aberdeen, South Dakota and returned to private practice. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1915, serving through the end of the Seventy-Second Congress in 1932. He was the chairman for the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (1921 1925), and the Committee on World War Veteran''s Legislation (1929 1932). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1932.