Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.

Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.

Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. (Buda, Texas October 11 1877October 23 1937) was the father of thirty-sixth President Lyndon Baines Johnson and the son of Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr. for whose nephew, James Polk Johnson, Johnson City, Texas was named. He was a struggling farmer and cattle speculator who lived in the hill country of Texas and provided an uncertain income for his family.

Politically active, Sam Johnson served five terms in the Texas legislature as a Democrat. He is remembered for attacking the Ku Klux Klan on the floor of the Texas legislature during a time when many of his colleagues were Klan sympathizers (an event famously referred to by his son). He also was instrumental in the legislation that enabled the state of Texas to acquire the Alamo property in San Antonio, enabling that monument to be preserved as an important part of American history.

He married Rebekah Baines, daughter of Joseph Wilson Baines, on August 20 1907. According to Lady Bird Johnson, Johnson's daughter-in-law, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., joined the Christadelphian Church, where his father and mother belonged, toward the end of his life. [cite web|url=http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/FAQs/Religion/religion_hm.asp |title=Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum — Religion and President Johnson] He is buried in Johnson City, Texas.

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