Lyndon Baines Johnson was born near Stonewall, Texas, on August 27,
1908, in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River. His parents,
Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States,
declared that he wanted to be "the President who helped the poor to
find their own way," the "President who helped
That year, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, which
is the most visited presidential library in the nation-over a quarter
million visitors per year-opened on the campus of the University of
He was named Lyndon Baines Johnson, and his grandfather declared he
would grow up to be a United States Senator. Three sisters and a
brother followed: Rebekah, Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the
Potomac was dedicated on September 27, 1974.
LBJ was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in
1980.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas, on 27th August,
1908. Although both his father and grandfather had served in the Texas
legislature, the family were poor.