Talk:Pete Johnson (politician)

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Did you know... that Pete Johnson was the first Republican to hold statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era?

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I think he should be more associated with his position and not his state, no?--BelBivDov (talk) 19:12, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Passed. Hog Farm _Talk 23:16, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 14:07, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Will take a look at this in a couple days. Hog Farm _Talk 14:07, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

""Johnson, Pete, 1948-". Civil Rights Digital Library. Digital Library of Georgia. 2013. Retrieved June 13, 2022." - any chance of a fix for this deadlink?
- Couldn't find archived link, replaced with 1991 newspaper article.
"e graduated from Murrah High School in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961" - source says 1966, which definitely makes more sense given a birth date of 1948 and a bachelor's degree in 1971
- Fixed.
"Both his grandfather, Paul B. Johnson, Sr., and uncle, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., served as Governor of Mississippi" - exact same phrasing as the Delta Business Journal source, but I think this is okay per WP:LIMITED
" for which he was formally diagnosed in 1986" - both sources give the year as 1987
- Fixed.
"He secured the Democratic nomination after defeating Al Gary in a primary runoff in late August" - is it worth adding a link to the carryover of the cited story on p. 11A of the paper, since that's where the only mention of Gary by name is?
- Thanks to Sammi, "11A" is linked.
A think a sentence discussing the scope of Operation Pretense is needed to clarify what exactly the reforms from the preceding State Auditor were, and why the unit vs. beat change was important
- See response below.
"His reform committee compiled a report suggesting structural issues with the beat system of county government and advising counties to transition to a unit form of government" - I think a footnote indicating what these two systems were, like what is in the Ray Mabus article, is needed. I work in governmental auditing and have worked with county audits before, and I've never heard of the beat system, so I imagine that's not well known outside of maybe residents of Mississippi who were politically informed before 1990
- I think this edit resolves the above two concerns. -Indy beetle (talk) 21:01, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
"After Johnson left office, he [...] and opened a legal practice in Clarksdale" - are you sure this is the right chronology, since the 1987 Canerdy source calls him a lawyer from Clarksdale?
- Per the Delta Business Journal article, Johnson was licensed to practice law in 1974 but went straight into banking/financial work in Clarksdale. Canerdy's description of him as a "Clarksdale lawyer" in 1987 isn't wholly contradicted by that, even if he wasn't working at law firm and its not the most accurate description. This 1982 article from his hometown paper describes him as a "Clarksdale banker". This 1987 AP article in the same paper describes him as a financial consultant. The Delta Business Journal article is probably the best narrative account of Johnson's life that we have, so I feel it would be odd if he did have a law practice in the 1980s which it neglected to mention.
Lack of images is understandable and to be expected, given that fair use isn't possible here
- Sadly, one probably does exist somewhere in the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Archives. As recounted in the article, Johnson visited the White House after becoming a Republican and a least one photograph of this meeting does exist (as shown in the Delta Business Journal article), but it's unclear whether this was an official White House photo or a personal one. I've tried searching the Bush Library website for confirmed official photos of this meeting but they don't seem to have digitized very many of their files. Contrast with the Reagan Library, from where I was able to use a some stills from a videotaped series of handshake meetings with various figures to get photos of Jack Reed (Mississippi politician) after figuring out the day that meeting took place.
Spot-checked a bunch of the sources, only noted the two issues with dates above

Overall, looks to be in pretty good shape. From skims of the sources, don't notice any major comprehensiveness issues. Placing on hold. Hog Farm _Talk 01:45, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hog Farm: I've responded to your comments. Thank you for doublechecking the dates. -Indy beetle (talk) 02:46, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 17:16, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Pete Johnson was the first Republican to hold statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era? Source: Nash, Jere; Taggart, Andy (2009). Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008 (second ed.). University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781604733570. Page 226 , Krane, Dale; Shaffer, Stephen D. (1992). Mississippi Government and Politics: Modernizers Versus Traditionalists. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803277588. Page 106
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rosa Diaz

Improved to Good Article status by Indy beetle (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 23:54, 1 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Pete Johnson (Mississippi politician); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
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—Bagumba (talk) 07:30, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]