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. Ed Johnson B. Ed Johnson Benjamin Edward Johnson (October 28, 1914 – June 8, 1983), known as B. Ed Johnson, was an American businessman, broadcaster and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. He resided in Columbus in Muscogee County, where he was the first elected mayor of that city, from 1965-1968. Johnson was born in 1914 to Edward Burton and Pamelia Weldon Johnson. His father was also a prominent citizen of the city, serving as the city's Superintendent of Public Works in the 1930s. B. Ed attended public schools in Columbus and married Martha Louise Noble in 1939. In 1945, Johnson