By Robert Moore, El Paso Matters Travis Johnson, an El Paso attorney who was prominent in Texas political and business circles for decades, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 89.  Johnson was appointed El Paso County judge, the highest executive position in county government, in 1965, when he was 29 years old. He was influential in El Paso and Texas Democratic politics for four decades.

He was an adviser and longtime friend of Lloyd Bentsen, the last Democrat elected to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Bentsen was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1988 and served as President Bill Clinton’s secretary of the treasury from 1993 to 1994. Johnson was an honorary pallbearer at Bentsen’s funeral in 2006, along with former presidents Clinton and George H.W. Bush and former secret

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