Editing Edwin C. Johnson (section)

==Career==
Beginning in 1923, Johnson served in the [[Colorado House of Representatives]] for four terms. He was [[Lieutenant Governor of Colorado|lieutenant governor]] from 1931 to 1933.  He represented Colorado for three terms in the [[United States Senate]] from 1937 until 1955, during which time from 1937 to 1940 he was an intraparty critic of the [[New Deal]] policies of [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].<ref>David M. Jordan, ''FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944'' ([[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington]]: [[Indiana University Press]], 2011), p. 276, {{ISBN|978-0-253-35683-3}}</ref> Johnson served as the [[List of Governors of Colorado|26th and 34th]] [[Governor of Colorado|governor]] of Colorado from January 10, 1933 until January 1, 1937 and from January 11, 1955 until January 8, 1957.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-01-13 |title=Edwin Carl Johnson |url=https://www.nga.org/governor/edwin-carl-johnson/ |access-date=2023-10-15 |website=National Governors Association}}</ref> He opposed FDR’s [[New Deal]] policies.<ref name= DB/>

===Ingrid Bergman incident===
He was perhaps best known for presenting a speech on March 14, 1950, on the Senate floor, criticizing the extramarital affair of actress [[Ingrid Bergman]], who at the time was married to Petter Lindström. Bergman's affair with Italian director [[Roberto Rossellini]] became a [[cause célèbre]] as a result of Johnson's speech, forcing her to relocate to Europe for several years. Johnson then proposed a bill where movies would be licensed based on the perceived morality of the actors/actresses and stated that Bergman “had perpetrated an assault upon the institution of marriage,” and called her “a powerful influence for evil.”

Prior to the discovery of her affair, Ingrid Bergman had been Johnson’s favorite actress. He felt that he had been deceived by the incident, and wished to ban her from any future Hollywood productions.<ref name= DB>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/21/when-congress-slut-shamed-ingrid-bergman|title=When Congress Slut-Shamed Ingrid Bergman|first=Marlow|last=Stern|newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=November 21, 2015|via=www.thedailybeast.com}}</ref>

Bergman returned to [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] in the 1956 blockbuster film ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]''. In 1972, [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Charles H. Percy]] of [[Illinois]] entered an apology into the ''[[Congressional Record]]'' for Johnson’s attack, which had been made on Bergman twenty-two years earlier.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/29/archives/ingrid-bergman-gets-apology-for-senate-attack.html|title=Ingrid Bergman Gets Apology for Senate Attack (Published 1972)|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 29, 1972|access-date=October 6, 2020|archive-date=March 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315211212/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/29/archives/ingrid-bergman-gets-apology-for-senate-attack.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Atomic bombs===
Johnson is also known for the alternative he presented to mankind in November 1945: "God Almighty in His infinite wisdom [has] dropped the atomic bomb in our lap." Now for the first time the United States, "with vision and guts and plenty of atomic bombs," could "compel mankind to adopt the policy of lasting peace … or be burned to a crisp."<ref>John Lewis Gaddis, ''The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947'', (New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1972), p 245.</ref>

=== Zionism ===
Johnson was a Zionist who supported the establishment of [[Israel]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dinin |first=Samuel |date=1945 |title=Zionist and Pro-Palestine Activities |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23602731 |journal=The American Jewish Year Book |volume=47 |pages=325–339 |jstor=23602731 |issn=0065-8987}}</ref>