Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.
| Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. | |
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| Member of the Texas State Assembly from the 89th district |
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In office 1918–1923 |
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| Preceded by | William Bierchswale |
| Succeeded by | Ben F. Foster |
| Member of the Texas State Assembly from the 89th district |
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In office 1905–1909 |
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| Preceded by | Joseph Wilson Baines |
| Succeeded by | William Bierchswale |
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October 11, 1877 Buda, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | October 23, 1937 (aged 60) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Rebekah Baines |
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Joseph Wilson Baines (father-in-law) Lynda Johnson Robb (granddaughter) Luci Baines Johnson (granddaughter) Lady Bird Johnson (daughter-in-law) Charles S. Robb (grandson-in-law) Lucinda Desha Robb (great-granddaughter) Catherine Lewis Robb (great-granddaughter) Jennifer Wickliffe Robb (great-granddaughter) Ian J. Turpin (grandson-in-law) Jess Johnson (grandfather) Lucy Webb Barnett Johnson (grandmother) |
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Lyndon B. Johnson Rebekah Johnson Josefa Johnson Sam Houston Johnson Lucia Huffman |
| Parents | Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr. |
Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. (October 11, 1877 – October 23, 1937) was an American businessman and politician. He was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives representing the 89th District. He served in the 29th, 30th, 35th, 37th, and 38th Texas Legislatures. He was the father of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson and the son of Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr. He was a struggling farmer and cattle speculator who lived in the Texas Hill Country.
Samuel Johnson was born in Buda, Texas, the fifth child of Eliza Bunton and Samuel Ealy Johnson Sr., and showed intelligence at an early age. When he was ten years old, his family moved from Buda to the Pedernales. On his family's Pedernales farm, he developed a strong sense of competition. In his teens he developed a desire to be "more than a farmer" and began attending a local school. However, at that time even so-called public schools required tuition, and his family struggled to afford the payments. When the barber of Johnson City retired, Sam bought his chair and tools with a loan and began practicing on his friends to gain skill at cutting hair. Once he learned, he was able to pay his school's tuition fees by selling haircuts in the evenings.
He had to quit going to high school because of health problems, and his parents sent him to live on his uncle Lucius Bunton's ranch in Presidio County, Texas for several months. When he returned home, Johnson had ambitions to become a teacher; however, the Texas hill country at that time had no state-accredited high schools and no colleges. He learned that he could get a state-issued teaching certificate without finishing high school by passing a state examination. In 1896, with the thirteen textbooks he needed to study for the exam, he moved to his retired grandfather's nearby home to study in quiet.
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