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
Philip L. B. Iglehart Philip L. B. Iglehart Philip L. B. Iglehart (1913 – February 9, 1993) was a Chilean polo player. Philip Iglehart was born in Chile in 1913. He was educated at the Lawrence School in New York City, the Aiken Preparatory School in Aiken, South Carolina, St. Paul's School in New Hampshire and Yale University. During the Second World War, he served as Vice President for operations in the Pacific Ocean of Grace Lines, a shipping company. He then operated a cattle ranch and orange groves near Lake Okeechobee, Florida. From 1964 until 1974, he owned a farm near the Baltimore