![]() ![]() Congressman Sam Rayburn was a close friend of Johnson’s father, Samuel. Kleberg after campaigning for Welly Hopkins, a senator from Texas, in 1930. Johnson was employed as legislative secretary under Congressman Richard M. After briefly teaching in Houston, Johnson entered politics. He also taught public speaking at Sam Houston High School in Houston, Texas. He also taught at Pearsall High School in 1930 in Pearsall, Texas. He taught Mexican kids in Cotulla, Texas at Welhausen School in 1927. He dropped out in 1927 but returned a year later and finally graduating in 1930. He worked his way through college in 1926 at Southwest Texas State Teachers’ College, where he dabbled in campus politics, debate, and editing The College Star, the school newspaper. As a growing youth, he was talkative and awkward. Johnson finished high school at Johnson City High School in 1924 and was participant to baseball, debate, and public speaking activities. The ancestors of LBJ settled in Texas from Georgia. Not far from Stonewall is Johnson City, a small town which was named after James Polk Johnson who was a cousin of Samuel Johnson, Jr. The Johnson’s were of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. His father was a member of the Texas House of Representatives and a businessman while his mother was the daughter of Joseph Baines, a state legislator. He was the first born of 5 children, 3 girls and 2 boys. He was born in Stonewall, Texas to Rebekah Baines and Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. He became President after serving as Vice President of the country from 1961 to 1963. ![]() He became President of the United States of America, the 36th, from 1963 to 1969. Johnson, or LBJ as he was popularly known, was born on August 27, 1908.
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