"I have a mighty fine grandson, smart as you find them. I expect him to be United States Senator before he is forty."
Grandfather Sam Ealy Johnson, Sr., on young Lyndon Johnson
On this site on a rainy August night in 1908, the future 36th President of the United States was born. He was the first son of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.—a state legislator—and Rebekah Baines Johnson, an educator and journalist. Lyndon Baines Johnson lived here for the first five years of his life.
President and Mrs. Johnson had the building in front of you constructed in 1964 as a guest house for visitors to the LBJ Ranch. It stands on the site of, and closely resembles, the original home (removed in the 1940s). Though never intended as a literal reconstruction, "the birthplace" is furnished with Johnson and Taylor Family mementos spanning many generations.
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The original birth home was built in 1889 by LBJ's grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, Sr.—shown here in front of the house with his wife Eliza. LBJ's parents moved here after their marriage in 1907. They farmed the surrounding land between Sam, Jr.'s, trips to the legislature in Austin.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, six months old.
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The photograph shows President Johnson on the grounds with his friend, Reverend Billy Graham.
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