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t. e. Electoral history of Lyndon B. Johnson, who served as the 36th president of the United States (1963–1969), the 37th vice president (1961–1963); and as a United States senator (1949–1961) and United States representative (1937–1949) from Texas. Texas's 10th congressional district special election, 1937. Lyndon B. Johnson (D ...
Elected President. Lyndon B. Johnson. Democratic. The 1964 United States presidential election was the 45th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in a landslide victory. Johnson was the fourth and most recent vice ...
Lyndon B. Johnson 's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency. Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1964 ...
Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ ˈlɪndənˈbeɪnz /; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963.
Lyndon B. Johnson. Democratic. Elected President. Richard Nixon. Republican. The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey ...
Elected President. John F. Kennedy Democratic. The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. The Democratic ticket of Senator John F. Kennedy and his running mate, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent Vice ...
Lyndon B. Johnson. Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas in 1908. [4] After graduating in 1930, he worked as a high school teacher. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1937 upon winning a special election for Texas's 10th congressional district. [5]
Johnson retired on January 20, 1969. On March 31, 1968, then-incumbent US President Lyndon B. Johnson made a surprise announcement during a televised address to the nation that began around 9 p.m., [1] declaring that he would not seek re–election for another term and was withdrawing from the 1968 United States presidential election. Johnson ...