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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Texas / USLyndon Baines JOHNSON
(1908-1973)
Senate Years of Service:
1949-1961Party: DemocratJOHNSON, Lyndon Baines,
(father-in-law of Charles Spittal Robb), a Representative and a
Senator from Texas and a Vice President and 36th President of the
United States; born on a farm near Stonewall, Gillespie County,
Tex., on August 27, 1908; moved with his parents to Johnson City,
in 1913; attended the public schools of Blanco County, Tex.;
graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College at San Marcos
(now known as Texas State University-San Marcos) in 1930; taught
high school 1928-1931; served as secretary to Congressman Richard
M. Kleberg in Washington, D.C., 1931-1935; attended the Georgetown
University Law School, Washington, D.C., 1934; State director of
the National Youth Administration of Texas 1935-1937; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress by special election, April
10, 1937, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James P.
Buchanan; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses and served
from April 10, 1937, to January 3, 1949; first Member of Congress
to enlist in the armed forces after the Second World War began;
served as lieutenant commander in the United States Navy 1941-1942;
was not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-first Congress
in 1948; elected to the United States Senate in 1948; reelected in
1954 and again in 1960 and served from January 3, 1949, until
January 3, 1961, when he resigned to become Vice President;
Democratic whip 1951-1953; minority leader 1953-1955; majority
leader 1955-1961; chairman, Special Committee on the Senate
Reception Room (Eighty-fourth Congress), Special Committee on
Astronautics and Space (Eighty-fifth Congress), Committee on
Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth
Congresses); elected Vice President of the United States in
November 1960, on the Democratic ticket with John F. Kennedy, for
the term beginning January 20, 1961; on the death of President
Kennedy was sworn in as President of the United States on November
22, 1963; elected President of the United States in 1964, for the
term commencing January 20, 1965, and served until January 20,
1969; did not seek reelection in 1968; retired to his ranch near
Johnson City, Tex.; died on January 22, 1973; lay in state in the
Capitol Rotunda, January 24-25, 1973; interment in the family
cemetery at the LBJ ranch; posthumously awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on June 9, 1980.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American
Law; Dallek, Robert. Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and
His Times, 1908-1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991;
Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the
Senate. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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