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alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him
In 1835, Johnson made a bid for election to the " floater " seat for his district in the Tennessee House of Representatives ; he " demolished " the opposition in debate and won the election with almost a two to one margin.
In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.
In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.
When not on the House floor, Johnson, in Washington without wife Eliza, shunned social functions in favor of increased self study and reading in the Congressional library.
The Andrew Johnson House, built in 1851, Greeneville, Tennessee
Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions, the Compromise of 1850, to allow admission while addressing concerns of both sides of the issue ; at the same time Johnson introduced a similar more streamlined version of compromise in the House.
In December 1852 Johnson realized his dream of passage in the House of his Homestead Act, which even garnered the support of Horace Greeley.
Leonard J. Farwell, a fellow boarder at the Kirkwood House, awoke Johnson with news of Lincoln's having been shot at Ford's Theater ; Johnson rushed to the President's deathbed for a brief time, commenting, " They shall suffer for this.
Three days after Stanton's removal, the House impeached Johnson for intentionally violating the Tenure of Office Act, by a vote of 128 to 47.
A Northern senator averred that ' Andrew Johnson was the queerest character that ever occupied the White House.
' " His biographer Trefousse concludes that, while his courageous stand for the Union paid handsome political dividends, Johnson did not succeed in the White House because of his failure to outgrow his Jeffersonian-Jacksonian background ; put in other words, " Johnson was a child of his time, but he failed to grow with it.
* " Andrew Johnson ", White House Biography
King, T-Bone Walker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Son House and Robert Johnson.
He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas.
* 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives.
In the 1870s in the United States, in the aftermath of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and his near-removal from office, it was speculated that the United States, too, would move from a presidential system to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary one, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives becoming the real center of government as a quasi-prime minister.
The building influenced the creation of hundreds of modernist glass houses, most notably the Glass House by Philip Johnson, located near New York City and also now owned by the National Trust.
During the 1960s, cartoonists of military comic strips went to the White House and met with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office.
* Jay W. Johnson, United States House of Representatives, Wisconsin
The House has thus far impeached two presidents: Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998.
Although he accepted an invitation from President Lyndon B. Johnson to revisit the White House in 1964, Nurmi lived a very secluded life until the late 1960s when he began granting some press interviews.

Johnson and Glass
Johnson died in his sleep while at the Glass House retreat.
The Philip Johnson Glass House is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and now open to the public for tours.
Former mayor Ken Livingstone referred to it as a " glass testicle ", while the present mayor, Boris Johnson, has referred to it as " The Glass Gonad " and more politely as " The Onion ".
In 1978 Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton, Paul Mann, and Samuel M. Johnson performed the opera's texts, with Philip Glass Ensemble performer Iris Hiskey taking the soprano solo.
* Alaya Dawn Johnson: " Shard of Glass " ( Strange Horizons, Feb. 14, 2005 )
However, Johnson Gardner, one of the trappers, recognized a rifle that one of the Indians had as the very rifle Glass got back from Fitzgerald after Fitzgerald and Bridger left him for dead in 1823.
Philip Glass believes Tom Johnson coined the phrase.
* 1949Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut designed by Philip Johnson.
* Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut designed by Philip Johnson.
Neil Williams, Larry Zox, Forrest ( Frosty ) Myers, Larry Poons, Brice Marden, Bob Neuwirth, Dan Christensen, Ronnie Landfield, Peter Reginato, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner, Robert Smithson, Joseph Kosuth, Brigid Berlin, David R. Prentice, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Forakis, Peter Young, Mark di Suvero, Larry Bell, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Richard Serra, Lee Lozano, Robert ( Tex ) Wray, Carlos Villa, Jack Whitten, Philip Glass, Max Neuhaus, Ray Johnson, Malcolm Morley, Marjorie Strider, Edward Avedisian, Carolee Schneemann, Dorothea Rockburne, David Budd, Norman Bluhm, Kenneth Showell, Tiger Morse, Colette Justine, Lenore Jaffee, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Marisol were just a few of the artists seen regularly at Max's.
She has said her parents ' albums by Patti Smith, the Carter Family, Stevie Wonder, Robert Johnson, Talking Heads, The Clash, Steve Miller, The Beatles, Philip Glass, and traditional music influenced her when she was growing up.
In 1997, S. C. Johnson expanded its roster of consumer brands when it purchased Dow Chemical's DowBrands division, which included Ziploc, Saran, Fantastik, Glass Plus, Scrubbing Bubbles, and Spray ' n Wash. Dow Chemical purchased Texize in 1986, in which it received the Fantastik and Glass Plus brand.
Prominent architect and critic Philip Johnson was inspired by the design to build his own Glass House in 1947.
He returned for an appearance in " Through the Looking Glass ", Lost's third season finale, and twice more in the fourth season, with the episodes " Meet Kevin Johnson " and " There's No Place Like Home ", and reprised his role in the fifth season with the episode " The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham ".
Current AFL players who originated from the Perth Football Club include Lance Franklin, Chance Bateman, Leon Davis, Darren Glass, Steven Armstrong, Scott Stevens, Damon White, Brennan Stack, Mark Coughlan, Ryan Hargrave, Michael Johnson, Sharrod Wellingham and more recently Chris Mayne and David Myers.
* The Glass House, a Connecticut building by the American architect Philip Johnson
* Faustin Johnson Solon, a chairman of the War Production Board, representing Owens-Illinois Glass Company
Glass Plus is a popular glass and multi-surface cleaner that is currently manufactured by Reckitt Benckiser, who purchased the brand from S. C. Johnson.
Along with teammates Jack Marshall, Hod Stuart, Frank Glass and Riley Hern, Johnson became the first professional player ever allowed to compete for the Stanley Cup as the Wanderers defended a challenge by the New Glasgow Cubs of the Maritime Hockey League prior to the ECAHA season's start.
He took part in the Wanderers ' Stanley Cup challenge against the New Glasgow Cubs, a team from Nova Scotia, on December 27 and 29, 1906, and along with teammates Riley Hern, Frank Glass, Moose Johnson and Jack Marshall, became the first professional hockey players to compete for the Stanley Cup.
* Philip Johnson: Transco Tower, Houston ; Detroit One Center ; Glass House, New Canaan, CT

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