Lyndon Johnson

Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-73), 36th president of the United States (1963-69).

Johnson was born on a farm near Stonewall, Texas, on August 27, 1908, the son and grandson of state legislators. He was reared in Johnson City, Texas, where he excelled in studies and debate at the local high school. After a period of wandering he enrolled in Southwest Texas State Teachers College, graduating in 1930. He taught high school for a year in Houston and then went to Washington, D.C., as a congressional aide. In 1935 he returned to Texas with a bride—Claudia Alta ("Lady Bird") Taylor—and gained praise as a state director of the National Youth Administration.

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