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1 day ago · Johnson's paternal grandfather, Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr., was raised Baptist and for a time was a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In his later years, Samuel Sr. became a Christadelphian; Samuel Jr. also joined the Christadelphian Church toward the end of his life.
Jun 5, 2024 · Lyndon Baines Johnson (often referred to as “LBJ”) was elected vice president of the United States in 1960 and was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States in 1963 after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Jun 20, 2024 · Lyndon B. Johnson (left), c. 1915. Johnson, the first of five children, was born in a three-room house in the hills of south-central Texas to Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., a businessman and member of the Texas House of Representatives, and Rebekah Baines Johnson, who was a daughter of state legislator Joseph Baines and had studied at Baylor Female ...
4 days ago · Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr. (1838–1915), soldier, grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson; Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862), Confederate general and commander of Confederate western forces; John J. Kennedy (1813–1880), Confederate cavalry officer, ended Regulator-Moderator War
Jun 1, 2024 · Born to farmer, businessman and state lawmaker Sam Ealy Johnson Jr. and his wife Rebekah Baines Johnson, LBJ had three sisters (Rebekah, Josefa and Lucia), and one brother (Sam Houston). The family’s ancestors hailed from Germany, England and Ulster (Ireland).
5 days ago · American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, leader of the civil rights movement, and close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, co-created and was an executive board member of SCLC; led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., as well ...
Jun 7, 2024 · At his Literary Club, he met with the greatest English historian, Gibbon; the greatest political philosopher in the English tradition, Burke; the founder of modern economics, Adam Smith; the portrait painter, Joshua Reynolds; Boswell, Goldsmith, Burney, Percy, Hawkins. It was an astonishing constellation.
