1. Samuel Robert Johnson was an American politician who served as the US representative for in Congress from 1991 to 2019.
40 Facts About Sam Johnson
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On January 6,2017, Sam Johnson announced he would not run for reelection in 2018.
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Sam Johnson was the last Korean War veteran to serve in Congress.
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Sam Johnson grew up in Dallas and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947.
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Sam Johnson graduated from his hometown Southern Methodist University in 1951, earning a bachelor's degree in business administration.
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Sam Johnson attained a master's degree from the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University in 1976.
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Sam Johnson had a 29-year career in the United States Air Force, where he served as director of the Air Force Fighter Weapons School and flew the F-100 Super Sabre with the Air Force Thunderbirds precision flying demonstration team.
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Sam Johnson commanded the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing at Homestead AFB, Florida, and an air division at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, retiring as a colonel.
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Sam Johnson was a combat veteran of both the Korean and Vietnam Wars as a fighter pilot.
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Sam Johnson was a prisoner of war for nearly seven years, including 42 months in solitary confinement.
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Sam Johnson was part of a group of eleven US military prisoners known as the Alcatraz Gang, a group of prisoners separated from other captives for their resistance to their captors.
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Sam Johnson was released on February 12,1973, during Operation Homecoming.
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Sam Johnson recounted the details of his POW experience in his autobiography, Captive Warriors.
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In 2018, Sam Johnson donated objects related to his imprisonment to the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
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Sam Johnson was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1984 and was re-elected three times, serving a total of seven years in the state legislature.
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Sam Johnson defeated fellow conservative Republican Thomas Pauken, of Dallas, 24,004 to 21,647.
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Sam Johnson ran unopposed by the Democratic Party in his district in the 2004 election.
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Sam Johnson ran for re-election in 2006, defeating his opponent Robert Edward Sam Johnson in the Republican primary, 85 to 15 percent.
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However, this was by far less a margin of victory then in past years, when Sam Johnson won by 80 percent or more.
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Sam Johnson won with 60 percent of the vote, an unusually low total for such a heavily Republican district.
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Sam Johnson won re-election with 66.3 percent of the vote against Democrat John Lingenfelder and Libertarian Christopher Claytor.
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Sam Johnson polled 30,943 votes ; two challengers, Josh Loveless and Harry Pierce, held the remaining combined 19.5 percent of the votes cast.
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Sam Johnson won reelection to his 13th full term in the general election held on November 8,2016.
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Three days after being sworn in for his 14th term overall and his 13th full term, Sam Johnson announced he would not run for reelection.
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Sam Johnson was a signer of Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
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Sam Johnson was a member of the conservative Republican Study Committee, and joined Dan Burton, Ernest Istook, and John Doolittle in refounding it in 1994 after Newt Gingrich pulled its funding.
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Sam Johnson alternated as chairman with the other three co-founders in the late 1990s.
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In November 1997, Sam Johnson was one of eighteen Republicans in the House to co-sponsor a resolution by Bob Barr that sought to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton.
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On October 8,1998, Sam Johnson voted in favor of legislation that was passed to open an impeachment inquiry.
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On December 19,1998, Sam Johnson voted in favor of all four proposed articles of impeachment against Clinton.
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Sam Johnson proposed the Good Samaritan Tax Act to allow corporations to take a tax deduction for charitable giving of food.
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Sam Johnson chaired the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, where he encouraged small business owners to expand their pension and benefits for employees.
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Sam Johnson opposed calls for government intervention in the name of energy reform if such reform would hamper the market and or place undue burdens on individuals seeking to earn decent wages.
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Sam Johnson called for allowing additional drilling for oil in Alaska.
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In December 2017, Sam Johnson signed a letter from Congress to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai supporting his plan to repeal net neutrality ahead of the commission's vote.
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Sam Johnson died on May 27,2020, in Plano, Texas, the city where he lived the last years of his life.
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Sam Johnson sat on the board of directors of the Institute in Basic Life Principles.
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On that date, Major Sam Johnson led a flight of two F-4C Fighter-Bombers on a twilight armed recce mission against a heavily defended target deep within hostile territory.
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Locating the target despite restricted visibility due to haze and terrain, Major Sam Johnson encountered a curtain of flak as he rolled in for his first strike.
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Colonel Sam Johnson resisted their demands by calling upon his deepest inner strengths in a manner which reflected his devotion to duty and great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.