Thomas Lee Johnson (April 30, 1945 – December 3, 2018) was a Republican Illinois State Senator.
[1][2] Born in California and raised in South Dakota and Illinois, Johnson was the son of an ordained minister.
[4] Johnson began his career in 1974 as a prosecutor in DuPage County, Illinois, rising to become the chief of its white-collar crime division.
[4] He served in a heavily Republican district that stretched from western DuPage County to St. Charles, Illinois.
[4] In 2010, Johnson was appointed to an Illinois Senate seat to fill the vacancy left by the ascension of Randy Hultgren to U.S.