Lake Lyndon B. Johnson and Llano County runs down the center of the lake. The lake was originally called Lake Granite Shoals. The dam would be renamed Wirtz Dam in 1952 for Alvin J. Wirtz, the first general counsel of the LCRA, and the lake was renamed to Lake Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 in honor of US President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In addition to his work to enact the Rural Electrification Act that formed the basis for building the Texas Highland Lakes, President Johnson owned a ranch on the lake (which was separate and apart from the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas). He
B. L. Shaw B. L. Shaw Bernice Lorene Shaw, known as B. L. "Buddy" Shaw (September 6, 1933 – January 18, 2018), was an educator from Shreveport, Louisiana, who served as a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate for Caddo and Bossier parishes in the northwestern corner of the state. Shaw defeated fellow Republican Billy Montgomery in the general election held on November 17, 2007, to procure the District 37 Senate seat vacated by the term-limited Max T. Malone of Shreveport. Shaw received 7,157 votes (57 percent) to Montgomery's 5,317 (43 percent) Shaw received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Northwestern State