* Junior Johnson ( born 1931 ), in the 1950s, Johnson became a legend in the rural South by consistently outrunning law-enforcement officials in auto chases while delivering homemade liquor ( moonshine ) to his customers.

* 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )

Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.

Despite Van Buren's defeat, Johnson was instrumental in keeping Greene County in the Democratic column.

The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of " Johnson " ( including a " Howard Johnson ", a " Dr. Samuel Johnson ", a " Van Johnson " and an " Olson N. Johnson ").

* George Furth as Van Johnson

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

This was recently reduced to ( Johnson and Frigo, 2007 ; Lundy and Van Buskirk, 2007 ).

Van Johnson who also appeared in Pal Joey recalled: " I watched him rehearsing, and it seemed to me that there was no possible room for improvement.

Later in 1957 Connery appeared in Terence Young's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger opposite Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom and Gustavo Rojo ; the film was shot on location in southern Spain.

During the campaign, Martin Van Buren's running mate Richard Mentor Johnson was accused of having lived with a black woman.

Virginia's 23 electors, who were pledged to Van Buren and Johnson, refused to vote for Johnson ( but still voted for Van Buren ).

* Van Johnson

** Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )

" Martin Van Buren was nominated for vice-president on the first ballot, receiving 208 votes to 49 for Philip Pendleton Barbour and 26 for Richard Mentor Johnson.

Although Southerners disliked the New Yorker Van Buren as well as his intended running mate, Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky, Van Buren secured the nomination at a meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, at the 1835 Democratic National Convention.

Many of Crawford's friends and co-workers, including Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Marlene Dietrich, Myrna Loy, Cesar Romero, Gary Gray, Crawford's first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Crawford's other daughters, Cathy and Cindy, denounced the book, categorically denying any abuse.

* A 2008 ad features the pit crews of Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson helping anchors Scott Van Pelt and Neil Everett getting ready for the next segment during the commercial.

He and the other two missionaries that reside in the same apartment, Elder Johnson and Elder Van Pelt, go to the train station to meet the new elder.

Tension has been building throughout the entire movie between Elder Johnson and Elder Van Pelt.

Johnson had told Van Pelt to hit him every time he used that word, but while waiting outside the apartment Johnson says it, and frustrated with Van Pelt for always hitting him, physically forces him to stop, showing his anger.

As he is leaving, Johnson and Van Pelt are looking in, hoping for him to leave soon.

" Forgetting Johnson's threats if he does so again, Van Pelt hits Johnson on the back, relatively hard.

They run in to see that Johnson has just hogtied Van Pelt with a rope when the mission president arrives in the apartment.

President Sandburg gives Johnson and Van Pelt a mild, but appropriate and effective, reprimand for their misbehavior.

Things start to get worse for Elder Johnson when the president has to talk to him and Van Pelt decides to listen to his tape from his girlfriend.

Johnson starts to resemble Elder Rogers when he starts to not do his work and jokingly says that the zone leaders are coming to promote Van Pelt because of Van Pelts ' high hopes, like those Rogers had when his girlfriend broke up with him.

With nine minutes left in the fourth quarter, Johnson left the game with a leg injury, and Alex Van Pelt took over and set up the winning field goal for a 16-13 Bills victory.

Johnson broke his collarbone and left the Week 9 ( November 11 ) game against the New England Patriots late in the fourth quarter, and Alex Van Pelt assumed the starting job for the rest of the 2001 season.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.

Johnson took to the Senate floor after the election demonstrated the schism in the country, giving a sensational speech headlined by the New York Times: "... I will not give up this government ... No ; I intend to stand by it ... and I invite every man who is a patriot to ... rally around the altar of our common country ... and swear by our God ... that the Constitution shall be saved, and the Union preserved.

Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass.

The Marlins were building upon a young nucleus revolving around Dan Uggla, Josh Johnson, Ricky Nolasco, Anibal Sanchez, and Hanley Ramirez alongside Willis and Cabrera.

The play Inherit the Truth ( 1987 ), by Gale Johnson, was based around the original transcripts of the case.

Stevens – Johnson syndrome is a rare condition, with a reported incidence of around 2. 6 to 6. 1 cases per million people per year.

He then moved to Lula, Mississippi, where he first met Charlie Patton and Willie Brown ( around this same time, he also met Robert Johnson ).

Grant was the most popular man in the country ; when President Johnson was at loggerheads with the Congress over Reconstruction, he decided to take his case to the people with his infamous " swing around the circle " throughout the country and he sought to capitalize on Grant's popularity by having Grant travel with him.

" This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.

It also represented a turning point, as young talent emerged from around the world, the likes of Ferguson, Clendenin and Wayne Wong, had given way to an new field of talent like " Little " Jack Taylor, Peter Johnson in Moguls, Eddie Lincoln, Bob " BadBob " Salerno and Frank Bare Jr. in Aerials and Scott Willingham and Mark Steigemeier in Ballet.

When they gathered around a blanket on which pinole ( a ground corn flour ) had been placed for them, Johnson and his men opened fire on the Chihenne with rifles and a concealed cannon loaded with scrap iron, glass, and a length of chain ).

Johnson campaigned even harder this time around, while Stevenson's efforts were surprisingly poor.

His many publications include the magnum opus The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology by Harald Sverdrup, Martin W. Johnson and Richard H. Fleming ( 1942, new edition 1970 ) which formed the basic curriculum of oceanography for the next 40 years around the world.

He started playing in street parades around New Orleans with Bunk Johnson and his band and then got a job playing in Willie Hightower ’ s band, the American Stars.

For a time during this period, two small-time outlaws known only as Craig and Johnson began bullying people around the community, often committing armed robbery openly and without fear of arrest due to Marshal Semans having been killed.

It was first settled around 1762 as a fishing retreat for Sir William Johnson.

Community life centered around sections within the town like Red Slide, Pine Knot, Sugar Hill, and Johnson City.

Jonesborough is centered around the junction of Andrew Johnson Highway ( which is part of both U. S. Route 321 and U. S. Route 11 ), which connects the town to Greeneville to the southwest and Johnson City to the northeast, and Tennessee State Route 81, which connects Jonesborough to Interstate 81 to the northwest and Interstate 26 at Erwin to the southeast.

The plans for Johnson Ranch call for the first large master-planned community in the area offering the cluster development concept which will provide much greater open space and allow for centralized water and wastewater systems, rather than the environmentally less friendly well and septic systems which are used in all of the older, neighboring residential developments around Bulverde.

Alnwick's battlements are surmounted by carved figures dating from around 1300 ; historian Matthew Johnson notes that around this time there were several castles in northern England similarly decorated, such as Bothal, Lumley, and Raby.

The ungentlemanly conduct of Jack Johnson and his refusal to fight legitimate contenders such as Englishman William Hague is often attributed to the difficulty of black fighters finding success in the heavyweight division ; Louis would change this around by showing he had conduct of a sportsman.