Was elected Vice President and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated

Usage examples of johnson.

If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century--any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America--or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.

Or how to describe adequately the delight of immersing oneself, as I have tried to do, in the writing of the eighteenth century--to read again after long years, or for the first time, the writers John Adams read and loved--Swift, Pope, Defoe, Addison, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Smollett, Johnson, and Voltaire?

His tumescence did its best to find its aetiology in the Aprilian and Elgarian and leave May Johnson alone.

Jorge catches the eye of an old friend seated two rows up: Henry Johnson, an astrophysicist who also used to work at Marshall Space Flight Center.

Thus he passed the old Dutch town of Schenectady, Johnson Hall and Johnson Castle, Forts Hunter and Herkimer, and at length reached the head of river navigation at Fort Stanwix.

Though somewhat dismayed to find his property located a score of leagues beyond that of his nearest white neighbor, the major was at the same time gratified to discover in that neighbor his old friend and comrade, William Johnson, through whose diplomacy the powerful Iroquois tribes of the Six Nations were allied to the English and kept at peace.

Brigid looked over her own blaster, an Iver Johnson TP-9 autopistol, carefully cycling a round into the chamber.

Tom Watkins had said Barnett would do, Johnson dug his heels into the asphalt.

Governor Barnett and Lieutenant Governor Johnson were suddenly faced with a mortal dilemma.

There were people strutting with guns in the streets, and Ross Barnett and Paul Johnson could not control them.

Instead of starring in an epic photo, Barnett and Johnson would go down in history drenched in blood.

The attorney general pressed Barnett and Johnson to keep the peace, and the federal convoy still barreled on.

Later in the afternoon, RFK and Barnett seemed to work out a tentative agreement for a decoy plan: Meredith would register quietly at Jackson on Monday while Barnett and Johnson were at Oxford standing heroically at the entrance to the university.

Johnson had been dispatched by Governor Barnett to try to restore some order to the chaos in Oxford.

Governor Barnett and Lieutenant Governor Johnson were never penalized for their contempt of the federal courts.