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

Story County was chosen as the location on June 21, 1859, from proposals by Johnson, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, and Story counties.

After World War II, many relatively affluent residents left for suburbs like Johnson County, Kansas and eastern Jackson County, Missouri.

Junior Johnson, seen here in 1985, was a popular NASCAR driver from the 1950s who began as a bootlegging driver from Wilkes County, North Carolina.

Category: People from Johnson County, Kansas

Population age comparison between rural Pocahontas County, Iowa and urban Johnson County, Iowa, illustrating the flight of young adults ( red ) to urban centers in Iowa.

* Waterloo, Johnson County, Indiana

* April – The Johnson County War breaks out between small farmers and large ranchers in Wyoming.

Category: People from Johnson County, Kansas

As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., Johnson's father, been sensitive to his German-American constituency and had opposed the Creel Committee's attempt to disparage German culture and isolate German-Americans during World War I. Adenauer and Erhard had also stayed at Johnson's ranch in Gillespie County.

* Purcell, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Johnson Township, Knox County, Indiana

She screen tested for the role of Francesca Johnson in The Bridges of Madison County which went to Meryl Streep.

* Crisfield Johnson, History of Washington County, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers.

The last Democrat to win a majority in Cortland County prior to Obama was Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

In the mid-18th century, Sir William Johnson, founder of Fort Johnson in Montgomery County and of Johnstown, arrived in the area that would become Fulton County.

The nearby small town of Johnson City, Texas, was named after LBJ's father's cousin, James Polk Johnson, whose forebears had moved west from Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

In 1927, Johnson taught mostly Mexican children at the Welhausen School in Cotulla, some ninety miles south of San Antonio in La Salle County.

Robert Caro argued in his 1989 book that Johnson had stolen the election in Jim Wells County and other counties in South Texas, as well as rigging 10, 000 ballots in Bexar County alone.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Andrew Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American Civil War.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

Pre-Civil War photo of Johnson

Johnson was named to the Joint Committee on Conduct of the War whose purpose was to goad-on laggard Union generals ; Johnson, to no avail, used this platform to voice the urgency of military intervention in East Tennessee.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

" The Situation ", a Harper's Weekly editorial cartoon shows Secretary of War Stanton aiming a cannon labeled " Congress " to defeat Johnson.

Johnson notified Congress of War Secretary Stanton's suspension and Grant's interim appointment.

Through his allies, Johnson maneuvered among the senators in an attempt to secure a favorable vote ; for example, a pledge was made to Sen. James W. Grimes to install a more highly respected War Secretary and to cease interference with Congress ' Reconstruction efforts.

To fulfill promises made during the impeachment trial, Johnson nominated John M. Schofield as War Secretary, who was confirmed.

" Johnson, Andrew ," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War.

The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".

Key among these during the post World War II period are Electa and Irving Johnson, Miles and Beryl Smeeton, Bernard Moitessier, Peter Pye, and Eric and Susan Hiscock.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Reported in The Australian on 1 July 1966, Holt's speech concluded with a remark which has come to be seen as encapsulating his unquestioning support for Johnson, for America's Vietnam policy and for continued Australian military involvement in the Vietnam War:

* 1967 – Cold War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.

* 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a " War on Poverty " in the United States.

Johnson Jones Hooper, whose character Simon Suggs bears a close kinship to Flem Snopes in both his willingness to take cruel advantage of all and sundry and the sharpness with which he habitually carried out his will ; ;

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

In agreement with Johnson, Donald C. Baker points out the similarity between both authors ' tones and use of irony.

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

As a Jeffersonian and Jacksonian, Johnson refused to toe any party line throughout his political career – though he primarily ran as a Democrat, with the exception of his vice-presidency.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

As a youngster living in poverty, along with his childhood friends, Johnson was an object of ridicule from members of higher social circles ; as such, he was commonly referred to as " poor white trash " by the elite in Raleigh.

At age 16 or 17, Johnson left his apprenticeship and ran away with his brother William.

Johnson returned to Raleigh and moved with his mother, stepfather and brother to Greeneville, Tennessee.

Johnson initiated public debates by organizing a debating society with Blackston McDannel, a customer.

The constitution was submitted for a public vote and Johnson campaigned for its adoption ; his support of the new work provided him with additional positive statewide exposure.

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 his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.

Johnson supported the Compromise of 1850 with the exception of its abolition of slavery in the nation's capital.

At this time Johnson built a larger home in Greeneville ( Eliza had given birth to another son and his mother had moved in with them following the death of his stepfather.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

Johnson attempted to make the most of the opportunities the position offered, using it as a springboard to higher honors, as the Governor's powers in the state were limited to offering mere suggestions on legislation ( with no veto power ), and managing the Bank of Tennessee and the penitentiary.

Johnson was surprisingly victorious, albeit with a narrower margin.

Not long thereafter Johnson gave a speech in Nashville, denouncing the Know Nothing Party, and rebuked a prominent Whig lawyer, Thomas T. Smiley, who took issue with him.

Johnson decided not to seek a third term as Governor, with an eye towards election to the United States Senate.

Johnson continued to ingratiate himself with the North, the President-elect and his party, with his Unionist speeches in the Senate in early 1861: " I have an abiding confidence in the intelligence, the patriotism, and the integrity of the people, and I feel in my own heart that, if this subject could be got before them, they would settle the question and the Union of these States would be preserved.

" In fact, Lincoln ultimately looked to Johnson for considerable help with Tennessee's federal patronage decisions.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.