Johnson, William Eugene (1862–1945)

US social reformer. During the prohibition movement, he was a prominent speaker in the USA and around the world, lecturing in favour of temperance. In 1919 he lost an eye when he was struck and dragged by medical students from a lecture platform in London.

He was born in Coventry, New York. He was a journalist and then a special officer in the US Indian Service 1908–11. He received his nickname, ‘Pussyfoot’, from his sneaky method of raiding gambling saloons in the Indian territory in Oklahoma.