Lyndon Johnson

BIRTH NAME
Lyndon Baines Johnson

POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat

RELIGION
Disciples of Christ

EDUCATION
Southwest Texas State Teachers’ College (now Texas State University-San Marcos) B.A. 1930

VITALS
6 ft 3.5 in / 200 lbs

CAREER
1930-31 Teacher, Sam Houston High School, Houston, Texas
1931-37 Legislative Aide, Richard M. Kleberg. U.S. Representative, Texas
1935-37 Head, Texas National Youth Administration
1937-49 Member of U.S. House of Representatives, Texas
1940-42 Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve
1949-61 U.S. Senator, Texas
1961-63 U.S. Vice President (Kennedy)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 3, 1964
Popular: Johnson 43,129,566 (61%) Barry M. Goldwater 27,178,188 (38%)
Electoral: Johnson 486 Goldwater 52

VICE PRESIDENT
Hubert H. Humphrey (1965-69)

ADMINISTRATION
24th Amendment (Abolish poll tax)(1963); Great Society, Civil Rights Act, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Warren Commission Report (1964); Bombing of North Vietnam, Malcolm X assassinated. Medicare & Medicaid created, Voting Rights Act, 25th Amendment (Presidential succession) Department of Housing & Urban Development (1965); Department of Transportation (1967); U.S.S. Pueblo, Tet Offensive, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Robert F. Kennedy assassinated (1968)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Abe Fortas, Thurgood Marshall

FIRST LADY
Claudia “Lady Bird” Alta Taylor (1963-69)

“We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.”
Special Message to the Congress on the Right To Vote, March 15, 1965

Portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 1968.