Lyndon B. Johnson - Felon Voting

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Lyndon B. Johnson Biography

Title:

Former President of the United States

Position:

None Found to the question "Should Felons Who Have Completed Their Sentence (Incarceration, Probation, and Parole) Be Allowed to Vote?"

Reasoning:

No position found as of Nov. 26, 2007

Involvement and Affiliations:

President of the United States, 1963-1969
Signed the Voting Rights Act, Aug. 6, 1965
Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, July 2, 1964
Vice-President of the United States, 1961-1963
Member, National Security Council
Chairman, National Aeronautics and Space Council,
Chairman, President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
Chairman, Peace Corps Advisory Council
U.S. Senator (D-TX), 1949-1961
Steered through to passage the Civil Rights Act of 1957, 1957
1955 – Elected Majority Leader of the Senate, served as Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee, Democratic Steering Committee, and Democratic Conference of the Senate, 1955
Elected Minority Leader of the Senate, 1953
Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-10th District of Texas), 1937-1949
Received the Silver Star from General Douglas MacArthur for gallantry in action during an aerial combat mission over hostile positions in New Guinea on June 9, 1942 [President Roosevelt ordered all members of Congress in the armed forces to return to their offices, and Johnson was released from active duty on July 16, 1942], 1941-1942
Appointed Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve, 1940
Texas Director of the National Youth Administration (NYA), 1935-1937

Education:

BS, Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now known as Texas State University-San Marcos), 1930

Other:

Following a short retirement, Lyndon Johnson died at his ranch on January 22, 1973

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