Career
He was born in 1916. He represented Kansas City, Missouri in the Missouri General Assembly, House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972. He served as President of the Kansas City, Missouri Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. At one time it was thought that World War I hero Henry Johnson was Herman Johnson"s father.