Frederick Johnson

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For the US Congressman, see Frederick Avery Johnson.

Frederick William Johnson OC, SOM (1917 – June 20, 1993) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.

Born in England, he came to Canada as a child. He served as an artillery officer during World War II, achieving the rank of major. After the war, he attended the University of Saskatchewan and received a law degree in 1949. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1963. He was appointed to the Court of Queen’s Bench in 1965 and from 1977 to 1983 served as Chief Justice of that court. From 1983 to 1988 he was the sixteenth Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan and was the first chancellor of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

In 1990, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1991 was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.

Preceded by Irwin McIntosh

Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan 1983-1988

Succeeded by Sylvia O. Fedoruk

	Lieutenant-Governors of Saskatchewan
Forget | Brown | Lake | Newlands | Munroe | McNab | Miller | Parker | Uhrich | Patterson | Bastedo | Hanbidge | Worobetz | Porteous | McIntosh | Johnson | Fedoruk | Wiebe | Haverstock | Barnhart