Byron L. Johnson

Byron Lindberg Johnson (October 12, 1917 – January 6, 2000) was an economist and U.S. Representative from Colorado.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Johnson graduated from Oconomowoc High School, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in 1933. He earned his B.A. at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1938, and completed his M.A. (1940) and Ph.D. (1947) at University of Wisconsin–Madison as well. He married Catherine (Kay) Teter, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in October, 1938.

Johnson was an economist for the Wisconsin State Board of Health from 1938 to 1942. He served as staff member on the U.S. Bureau of Budget from 1942 to 1944, and of the Social Security Administration in Washington, D.C. from 1944 to 1947. He was a professor at the University of Denver from 1947 to 1956.

Johnson was a co-founder and organizer of the Mile High Housing Association, a cooperative-housing membership group that acquired land and built 32 homes on South Dahlia Lane, in Arapahoe County just southeast of Denver. The cooperative was launched by faculty members at the University of Denver who at the time lived in temporary postwar housing (mainly butler huts) and wanted something better. Johnson and his family moved into their home in February 1951. South Dahlia Lane's 32 homes were designed by architect Eugene Sternberg, whose South Dahlia Lane home was next door to Johnson's. Sternberg's designs were influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright; Wright's Pope-Leighey House in Virginia has distinctive elements that re-appear in the Sternberg designs for South Dahlia Lane.

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