Pelham A. Barrows Republican Fred G. Johnson Republican The 1922 Nebraska lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1922, and featured Republican nominee Fred G. Johnson defeating Democratic nominee P. J. Mullin as well as Progressive nominee T. J.

[1] Incumbent Nebraska Lieutenant Governor Pelham A. Barrows, a Republican, chose not to seek reelection to the office of lieutenant governor in order to run for the vacant seat of C. Frank Reavis, former US Representative from Nebraska's 1st congressional district.

John M. Johnson, from St. Paul, Nebraska, ran unopposed in the Prohibition Party primary.

He was the owner and publisher of The Phonograph, a newspaper in Howard County, Nebraska.

The convention then chose to endorse the Republican nominee, Fred G.