Colgate Herman Johnson

Colgate Herman Johnson (2449-2540) was an Alorian Politican, considered the "godfather of the Alorian Public Union", the party's first Presidential Candidate (when it was named the Publitrican Party) and the Minister of Foriegn Affairs under President Nelson Cudderbaord.

Founder of the Publitrican Party
Colgate Herman Johnson was born in Port Liberty in 2449. His mother, Patricia Herman, was an heiress to the wealthy Herman family, considered the "Patrician Dynasty" of Ultran.

In Ultran, and to a lesser extent in Slidar, at the end of the 25th century, new political parties were emerging at a provincial and municipial level, factions which called for "the government to uphold Alorian welfare, morals and spirit"; essentially econmomic progressives and cultrual conservatives. They were known as "Publitrican Parties". Colgate Johnson worked to fuse them together, and soon the Publitricans became a national party, running Johnson as their first candidate in 2505. He came in third, and the party began picking up a substantial number of seats in Parliament.

Over the course of the next decade, the party picked up more and more power in the government and in 2511, Johnson made ithhh to the second run off round of the Presidential election, but ultimately coming in a distant second to incumbent Libertarian Candidate, Daniel Mansfield.

After a few more year, Johnson stated that he was fed up with Alorian politics and retired from public life. When Mansfield defunded the Ministry of Foriegn Affairs, however, Chairman of the Publitrican Party Nelson Cudderboard asked him to CEO a Private Pr firm called Good Will Aloria to fill the void in International Relations. A few years later, President Colton White (who had defeated Mansfield in the election before) had the Ministry refunded, and eventually GWA ended.

Foriegn Affairs
When Cudderboard was elected to the Presidency in 2529 (more then a decade later), he had Johnson appointed as Minister of Foriegn Affairs, citing his experiance as CEO of GWA.Johnson, now 83, worked vigourusly to have Aloria ratify a Free Trade Treaty, campaigning around the country on its behalf when it seemed it might fail. While ratification passed, the work tired Johnson so much that he soon fell into decline.

Johnson died of old age in 2540.