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Herbert Johnson worked as a clerk, a stenographer and bookkeeper before becoming a cartoonist with the Saturday Evening Post. He shared his employer's conservative political views and supported the Republican Party and its presidents, Warren Harding (1921-1923), Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929), Herbert Hoover (1929-33). In the 1930s Johnson was a harsh critic of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.

Herbert Johnson, Saturday Evening Post (1935)