Emory Richard Johnson (March 22, 1864 – March 8, 1950) was a

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who specialized in transportation issues.

Biography

Johnson was born in

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. He studied at

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(1888) and

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(Ph.D., 1893). He was instructor of economics at Haverford College 1893-96. He became professor of transportation and commerce at the University of Pennsylvania in 1896, and was dean of its

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from 1919 to 1933. He served as expert on transportation (1899) on the

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, and was a member on valuation of railway property for the

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(1904–05), and as expert on traffic on the National Waterways Commission of 1909. In 1911 he furnished a report on

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traffic, etc., for U.S. President

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, and in 1907 arbitrated the dispute between the

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and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. In 1926 he travelled to China; in Shandong he met the 6-year-old

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and invited him to attend the University of Pennsylvania. He was director of the Bureau of Municipal Research,

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, and director of the Philadelphia Maritime Exchange. He died in

on March 8, 1950.

Works

*''Inland Waterways: Their Relation to Transportation'' (1893) *''American Railway Transportation'' (1903) *''Elements of Transportation'' (1906) *''Railroad Traffic and Rates'' (1911) *''Panama Canal Traffic and Tolls'' (1912) *''Measurement of Vessels for the Panama Canal'' (1913) *''The Panama Canal and Commerce'' (1916) *''Principles of Railroad Transportation'' (1916) He wrote many papers on the economics of railroads, etc. He was editor of the ''Annals'' of the American Academy of Political and Social Science from 1901 to 1914.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Emory Richard 1864 births 1950 deaths People from Waupun, Wisconsin University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty Writers from Pennsylvania Writers from Wisconsin Economists from Wisconsin