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
L. B. Kubiak L. B. Kubiak L. B. Kubiak (born December 5, 1945) is a veterinarian in Austin, Texas, who served as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives from District 13 from 1983 to 1991. He resides in Rockdale in Milam County. Kubiak's House tenure was preceded and succeeded by that of his older brother, the late Dan Kubiak, a former educator and businessman, also from Rockdale. Kubiak was born to a Roman Catholic couple, John T. Kubiak (1914–2001), a farmer and garage owner, and the former Connie M. Snider (1915–1999), east of rural Reagan, Texas. There he attended elementary school