Lyndon B. Johnson

1908 – 1973

Lyndon Baines Johnson served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after assuming office on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He shepherded the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 through Congress, dismantling the legal architecture of Jim Crow segregation, and launched the Great Society programs that established Medicare, Medicaid, federal education funding, and the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. His domestic legislative legacy stands as one of the most consequential in American history.

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