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
George B. Johnson Aarhus, Denmark, in 1977. In 1980 he was promoted to Professor of Biology at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, a position he held until his retirement in 2004. He was also Professor of Genetics at the School of Medicine from 1981 to 2004. During the years 1987 to 1990 he served as founding Director of The Living World education center, St. Louis Zoo. Since 2004 he has continued at Washington University as Professor Emeritus of Biology. George B. Johnson Dr George B. Johnson (born 11 June 1942, Newport News, Virginia) is a science educator who for many years has written