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Was born in Stonewall, Texas his parent were Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. and Rebekah Baines Johnson
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Moved to Johnson City, Texas and started a ranch that later becomes a national park and attracts many visitors every year
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Graduated Johnson City High school he was talkative during his youth and had many high grade and did baseball, speaking debate, and other things to help him
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Taught Grade school in Cotulla, Texas taught from 1928-1929
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Graduated from Southwest Texas State, San Marcos
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Married Claudia Alta Taylor in San Antonio, Texas at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San
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Won the election for house of representatives because of death of James Paul Buchanan
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Became special duty officer, navel intelligence, navel reserve
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Reelected by the people of Texas to go and be in the house of representatives
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got consent of the house of representatives to leave to enter service in the U.S. navel reserve was the first congress member to enter in WW2
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Received Silver star for his gallantry under fire when the patrol bomber he was flying got attack by Japanese
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Reelected for a 3rd time and it his last term in the house
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Got another consent to go and serve in the navy for the Vietnam war
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Became commander for U.S.N.R.
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Running to be 1 of Texas's senators
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became Texas's senator from 1949-1954 an narrowly beat Coke Stevenson and won by 87 votes
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suffered a heart attack because he smoked 60 cigarettes a day the quit with a few exceptions then resumed smoking after he left the white house and this heart attack was supposedly the worst heart attack you could have an still survive this made him afraid to be alone for the rest of his life
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Reelected for senate in 1955 After his 1949 election he got on terms with Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Richard B. Russell which helped him secure his election on 1955
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He was nominated to be the democratic party's presidential candidate by Sam Rayburn at the democratic convention held in Las Angeles, California but it nominated Senator Joh F. Kennedy of Massachusetts
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Lyndon B. Johnson was elected vice president by the senate unanimously and became John F. Kennedy's running mate in the 1960 election
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Second Heart attack just after Kennedy was assasinated
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Became president after Kennedy was assassinated in Austen Texas he was the eighth president to become president as the result of an assassination
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Kennedy was assassinated during his campaign for a second term in office
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LBJ was sworn in in Air Force One was the first president to be sworn in by a women was the first president to have his wife hold the bible
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Became senator again and was beaten after this term and this term went to 1961
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LBJ declined his 2nd term because he felt like he wasn't fit and there where more capable people out there to run for president
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Hospitalized at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio for a heart attack and resumed chain smoking after he left this hospital and he said "he didn't want to linger around like Eisenhower did and when he goes he want to go fast"
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Suffered heart attack in Charlottesville, Virginia and was taking to the hospital and had to convince is wife to let him fly home to Texas and LBJ survived but he continued smoking and often had to lay down and breath from an oxygen tank
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President Richard Nixon called him at his ranch to tell him that peace in Vietnam was coming. LBJ told him he just got off the phone with his doctors and he was suffering from chest pain and Nixon said "I called you at the wrong time."
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LBJ died of a heart attack in San Antonio Texas and is now buried in the Johnson family cemetery
