Bedridden LBJ wins first election

As voters in ten Texas counties went to the polls on Apr. 10, 1937 to pick a new congressman, the youngest candidate on the ballot spent the day in a hospital bed. After working his way through college at San Marcos and teaching school in Houston, Lyndon Baines Johnson joined the staff of Rep. Richard Kleberg. Three years later, he returned to the Lone Star State as administrator of t...

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