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3 unusual facts about John H. Johnson


Mel Farr

He married Linda Johnson Rice, the adopted daughter of the late publisher, John H. Johnson of Ebony Magazine in 2004.

The Negro Digest

The Negro Digest (later renamed Black World) was a popular African-American magazine founded in November 1942 by John H. Johnson.

In 1942, when John H. Johnson sought financial backing for his first magazine project, he was unable to find any backers—black or white.


2000 in Zimbabwe

23 November - Leading pharmaceutical company, Johnson and Johnson, relocate their manufacturing division to South Africa owing to continuing economic instability.

Alfred W. Johnson

Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, a US naval officer in the Spanish-American War and World War I

Americo-Liberian

In 2007 BET founder Robert Johnson called for "African Americans to support Liberia like Jewish Americans support Israel".

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

B. S. Johnson

Many of these figures contributed to London Consequences, a novel consisting of a palimpsest of chapters passed between a range of participating authors and set in London, edited by Margaret Drabble and Johnson.

Bourke B. Hickenlooper

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson named him to a congressional team to oversee the elections in the Republic of South Vietnam.

David T. Johnson

In 1995, Johnson became Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the White House and Spokesman for the United States National Security Council.

Disaster!

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the Star of Mutha Nature Although given no official character name, Johnson is seen as a lead role in Mutha Nature where he plays a park ranger who must save the world from hordes of disasters caused by an evil corporation.

Ellis Johnson

Ellis L. Johnson, Coca-Cola chair professor for Georgia Tech's School of ISyE

Finley Heights

He considered the heights to be islands lying in a great transverse channel across the Antarctic Peninsula and named them "Finley Islands" for John H. Finley of The New York Times, who was then president of the American Geographical Society.

First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson

Johnson also asked Jack Valenti, Bill Moyers, and Liz Carpenter to write a brief statement for him to read on the day's events, which he then edited slightly himself.

First State Heritage Park

The Johnson Victrola Museum was built in honor of Eldridge R. Johnson founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company.

Fresca

American President Lyndon B. Johnson had a soda fountain containing Fresca installed in the Oval Office.

Glen Johnson

Glen D. Johnson, Jr. (born 1954), Chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education

Investor Network on Climate Risk

In 2007, more than 20 leading companies, including Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson, and others, issued a formal call for national legislation calling for significant reductions in GHG emissions.

Ivan Loveridge Bennett

Bennett was Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy under Lyndon B. Johnson between 1967 and 1969.

J. C. Johnson

In the 1970s, he enjoyed the renewed interest in his songs, which appeared in many movies and revues and were recorded by artists such as Bette Midler, Bobby Short and Della Reese.

James M. Hanley

During his Congressional career, Hanley was known as a liberal, and supported the Great Society program of Lyndon B. Johnson, expansion of Medicare and Head Start, and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Jazz Kitchen

Many acclaimed musicians have performed at Jazz Kitchen, including Larry Coryell, Lavay Smith, Pharez Whitted, Jon Faddis, Kathy Kosins, Yellowjackets, Frank Glover, Joey DeFrancesco, Terence Blanchard, J. J. Johnson, Simone (actress), Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Ray Brown (musician).

Jennifer M. Johnson

She became an executive story editor for the third and final season The Guardian in 2003.

John H. Brinton

He served in the capacity of a brigadier surgeon in the American Civil War, later as a member of General Ulysses S. Grant's staff.

John H. Edwards

Early in his career, he worked under Lancelot Hogben, and was sometimes distinguished from the brother as Hogben's Edwards.

John H. Gear

He was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House for the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1891.

John H. Healey

Healey earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Yale University and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

John H. James

During the American Civil War he and his wife travelled to Canada and Nassau, Bahamas, and afterwards they returned to Atlanta where he founded the James Bank.

John H. Jones and Carrie Otis Jones

He was hired by Don Abel Stearns to take care of horses and to be a general caretaker: His first job was to put together a collection of furniture that had come from the East.

John H. Leims

After high school, he attended Northwestern University for two and a half years, and worked part-time at the Commonwealth Edison Company.

John H. McGlynn

In 1987, along with four Indonesian writers, Goenawan Mohamad, Sapardi Djoko Damono, Umar Kayam, and Subagio Sastrowardoyo, he founded the Lontar Foundation with the aim of promoting Indonesian literature and culture to the international world through the translation of Indonesian literature.

John H. Merrifield

He also operated a general merchandise store for several years, and later worked as Station Agent for the Vermont line of the B & W Railroad.

John H. Mitchell

During his law practice in Oregon, Mitchell did some legal work for a client named Marcus Neff.

John H. Rubel

John H. Rubel (born April 27, 1920) was a business executive in the early post-World War II years of the defense electronics industry, later serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration.

John H. Stracey

There is a Public House in the Village of Briston, Norfolk called the John H Stracey in tribute to the boxer.

Kerr Lake

The lake is named for Congressman John H. Kerr of North Carolina, who supported the original creation of the lake.

Lontar Foundation

Lontar also published Indonesia in the Soeharto Years - Issues, Incidents and images written by John H. McGlynn and a large number of other writers.

Louis Mazetier

Although Dr. Mazetier is influenced by earlier jazz pianists, such as Eubie Blake, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Don Ewell, Johnny Guarnieri, Dick Wellstood, and Art Tatum, his greatest influence appears to be the American stride pianist, Donald Lambert, 1904 - 1962.

Norfolk Naval Shipyard

John H. Burroughs, superintendent of the Shipyard during the Union occupation of the American Civil War

Pebbles cereal

WWE professional wrestler John Cena is now officially endorsed by Fruity Pebbles as the result of references to the cereal made by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson over the course of 2011.

Post and Mail building, Birmingham

Designed in 1960 by John H.D. Madin and Partners (partner in charge, D.V. Smith, project architects Ronald E. Cordin and Ramon K. Wood).

Roy P. Johnson

His newspaper columns remain the most detailed and incisive chronicle of the history of the Red River of the North and its environs.

Scott C. Johnson

In 2004, Johnson was awarded an Overseas Press Club honorable mention for his reporting on economics in Latin America.

Steve Merrill

He served on the staff of Governor Sununu and was the state's Attorney General before being elected Governor.

Ted Robert Gurr

In 1968 Professor Gurr was asked to join the staff of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, established by President Lyndon Johnson after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.

Treatment of slaves in the United States

Historian Charles Johnson writes that such laws were not only motivated by compassion, but also by the desire to pacify slaves and prevent future revolts.

Trebas Institute

The selection of faculty members is based primarily on their practical experience in a given field, and have included author and television host-producer John H. Foote; President of the Canadian Music Publishers Association, Jodie Ferneyhough; filmmaker, B. P. Paquette; and sound engineer, Bob Heil.

Undergraduate gowns in Scotland

A significant example of this is the actions of John Anderson, a professor at the University of Glasgow and founder of what went on to become the University of Strathclyde.

Václav Chvátal

he studied a weighted version of the set cover problem, and proved that a greedy algorithm provides good approximations to the optimal solution, generalizing previous unweighted results by David S. Johnson (J. Comp. Sys. Sci. 1974) and László Lovász (Discrete Math. 1975).

William Conrad Gibbons

He worked in Capitol Hill for both Senator Wayne Morse and Senator Mike Mansfield and also served as an advance man for presidential contender Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960.

William R. Johnson

He worked at Ralston, Frito-Lay and Anderson-Clayton Foods before joining Heinz in 1982 as general manager of new business.

Willis Bates

The game was played against the Washburn Ichabods using a set of experimental rules and was officiated by then Washburn head coach John H. Outland.


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