Johnson did not finish college. He worked as a teacher and then a school principal before entering politics, winning a House seat in 1937 and a Senate seat in 1948 — eventually reaching the vice presidency in 1960 and the presidency in 1963. His student government involvement at Southwest Texas State Teachers College quietly seeded the network and instincts that powered a three-decade rise.
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