What is Jeh Johnson?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Jeh Johnson |image = Jeh Johnson official DHS portrait.jpg{{!}}border |office = 4th [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security]] |president = [[Barack Obama]] |deputy = [[Alejandro Mayorkas]] |term_start = December 23, 2013 |term_end = January 20, 2017 |predecessor = [[Janet Napolitano]] |successor = [[John F. Kelly]] |birth_name = Jeh Charles Johnson |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|9|11}} |birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = Susan DiMarco {{small|(1994–present)}} |children = 2 |alma_mater = [[Morehouse College]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[Columbia University]] {{small|([[Juris Doctor|JD]])}} }} '''Jeh Charles Johnson''' (born September 11, 1957)<ref>[https://fas.org/irp/congress/2009_hr/nominate.pdf Nominations before the Senate Armed Services Committee, First Session, 111th Congress]. S. Hrg. 111-362.</ref> is an [[Americans|American]] civil and criminal trial [[lawyer]]. He was born in [[New York City]]. He was the [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security]]. He was the [[General Counsel of the Department of Defense]] from 2009 to 2012 during the first Obama Administration. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at [[Morehouse College]] (B.A.) and law at [[Columbia Law School]] ([[Juris Doctor|J.D.]]). he is the grandson of [[sociologist]] and [[Fisk University]] president [[Charles S. Johnson|Dr. Charles S. Johnson]]. Johnson's first name is taken from a [[Liberia]]n chief, who reportedly saved his grandfather’s life while he was on a [[League of Nations]] mission to Liberia in 1930.<ref>Johnson, Charles S., ''Bitter Canaan: The Story of the Negro Republic'' Transaction Books (1987), page 1xxiii fn 171</ref> == References == <references/> {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Jeh Charles}} [[Category:1957 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:African-Amer