What is Boris Johnson's first name?
"on the Republican ticket, but was defeated, and left the bench on December 31, 1874. In October 1875, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant Circuit Judge of the Second U. S. Judicial Circuit. He died in office in 1878, and was buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, NY. Alexander S. Johnson Alexander Smith Johnson (July 30, 1817 – January 26, 1878) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1858 to 1859. He was the son of Alexander Bryan Johnson and Abigail Louisa"
"Boss Johnson Byron Ingemar ""Boss"" Johnson (December 10, 1890 – January 12, 1964), born Björn Ingimar ""Bjössi"" Jónsson, served as the 24th Premier of the province of British Columbia, Canada, from 1947 to 1952. To his contemporaries he was often referred to by his nickname, ""Boss Johnson"", which had nothing to do with his personality, but was an anglicization of the Icelandic ""Bjossi"", which is a diminutive form of his birth-name of Bjorn, which was adapted into English as Byron. Johnson was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. After overseas service in World War I, he and his brothers"
"nothing if not an elitist"". In an article titled ""Long Live Elitism"", Johnson stated that ""without elites and elitism man would still be in his caves."" Purnell believed that it was the influence of Johnson's maternal family, the left-wing Fawcetts, that led to him developing ""a genuine abhorrence of racial discrimination"". Widely known simply as ""Boris"", Johnson has attracted a variety of nicknames, including ""BoJo"", a portmanteau of his forename and surname. Biographer Sonia Purnell described his public persona as ""brand Boris"", noting that he developed it while at Oxford University. Max Hastings referred to this public image as a"
"of Boris Johnson, who later became the Mayor of London, as well as of Count Gottfried von Bismarck. He is married, has a daughter and two sons, and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. In February 1993, Guppy was jailed for staging a faked jewel robbery and claiming £1.8 million from the insurers. Guppy claims his fraud was intended as retribution against Lloyd's of London, since his father had lost money in Lloyd's financial crisis of the 1990s. Guppy and his business partner, Benedict Marsh, hired a man to fake a robbery, discharge a firearm and tie them up. Both"
"a member of the European Parliament representing the Conservative Party. His son Boris Johnson, Kemal's great-grandson, was editor of ""The Spectator"" and a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley on Thames from 2001 until 2008. From 4 May 2008 to 8 May 2016, he held the office of Mayor of London, and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 and was Foreign Secretary from July 2016 until his resignation in July 2018. After the First World War, Kemal's half-English daughter Selma returned to her Turkish surname of Kemal and also took Turkish nationality. Her son Anthony"
"Great Britain and King Frederick William I of Prussia. Stanley had married Johnson's mother, Charlotte Fawcett, in 1963, before they moved to the United States; she was an artist from a family of liberal intellectuals. She was the granddaughter of Americans Elias Avery Lowe, a palaeographer of Russian Jewish descent, and Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, a translator. In reference to his varied ancestry, Johnson has described himself as a ""one-man melting pot"" – with a combination of Muslims, Jews, and Christians as great-grandparents. Johnson was given his middle name of ""Boris"" after a Russian émigré his parents had once met in"
"Foreign Secretary under Theresa May's premiership, but resigned in criticism of May's approach to Brexit and the Chequers Agreement. Johnson is a controversial figure in British politics and journalism. Supporters have praised him as an entertaining, humorous, and popular figure with appeal beyond traditional Conservative voters. Conversely, he has been criticised by figures on both the left and right, who accused him of elitism, cronyism, dishonesty, laziness, and using racist language. Johnson is the subject of several biographies and a number of fictionalised portrayals. Johnson was born on 19 June 1964 at a hospital on the Upper East Side of"
"Stanley and Charlotte's relationship broke down in December 1978 and they divorced in 1980. Charlotte moved into a flat in Notting Hill, where her children spent much of their time with her. Johnson was awarded a King's Scholarship to study at Eton College, the elite independent boarding school in Eton, Berkshire. Arriving there in the autumn term of 1977, Johnson began using the given name Boris rather than Alex and developed ""the eccentric English persona"" for which he later became known. He also abandoned his mother's Catholicism and became an Anglican, joining the Church of England. Although school reports complained"
"In 2018, he appeared on the BBC programme The Real Marigold Hotel, alongside 8 other celebrities. Stanley said his son Boris Johnson burka comments did not go far enough. In October 2018 Johnson said that, irrespective of the solution for the border on the island of Ireland after Brexit, if the Irish people ""want to shoot each other, they will shoot each other"". Johnson married the painter Charlotte Fawcett in Marylebone in 1963, with whom he had four children: Boris, Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, previously Foreign Secretary and Mayor of London; Rachel, journalist and former editor-in-chief of"
"Luci Baines Johnson Luci Baines Johnson Turpin (born July 2, 1947) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the younger daughter of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. Born in Washington, D.C., Johnson has an older sister Lynda Bird. Johnson's first name was originally spelled ""Lucy""; she changed the spelling in her teens as a rebellion towards her parents. As her parents both had the initials LBJ, they named their two daughters to have these initials also. Although her father was a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), her"
"he altered the spelling of his name in 1918. His wife, whom he married in 1911 and with whom he had three daughters, was the translator Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter. Among their descendants are English artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl, and her son, journalist and politician Boris Johnson, former Mayor of London and former Foreign Secretary. Although Lowe ""never abandoned his solidarity with the Jewish people"", he declined to practise Judaism; towards the end of his life he told one of his daughters that, were he to adhere to a religion, he would opt for Roman Catholicism. Following his death in Bad"
"Jo Johnson Joseph Edmund Johnson (born 23 December 1971) is a British Conservative politician. Johnson became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington in 2010. In 2013 David Cameron made him Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit, and in 2014 Minister of State for the Cabinet Office. Johnson served as Minister for Universities and Science from 2015 to 2018, and Minister for Transport and London from January to November 2018, when he resigned (citing the failure of the Brexit negotiations to achieve what had been promised by the Vote Leave campaign and his wish to campaign for a new"
"on 8 July 2018. Following the resignation, DExEU junior minister Steve Baker and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also resigned. Born to a single mother, Betty Brown, in York on 23 December 1948, Davis was initially brought up by his grandparents there. His maternal grandfather, Walter Harrison, was the son of a wealthy trawlerman but was disinherited after joining the Communist Party; he led a 'hunger march' to London shortly after the more famous Jarrow March, which did not allow Communists to participate. His father, whom he met once after his mother's death, is Welsh. After his mother married Ronald Davis,"
"family members, on the lines that it promotes nepotism. Although MPs who were first elected in 2017 have been banned from employing family members, the restriction is not retrospective - meaning that Johnson's employment of his wife is lawful. Gareth Johnson Gareth Alan Johnson (born 12 October 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician and former lawyer. He was first elected at the 2010 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dartford, winning the seat from Labour. He has been supportive of Leave Means Leave, a Eurosceptic pressure group. Johnson was born in Bromley in London on the 12"
"Party mayor Boris Johnson. He immediately resigned as MP for Tooting upon his victory at the mayoral election. He is London's first ethnic minority mayor. Khan won the largest number of votes in one election of any politician in British history. As mayor, he has introduced reforms to limit charges on London's public transport, backed London Gatwick Airport expansion, and focused on uniting the city's varied communities. He was a vocal supporter of the unsuccessful Britain Stronger in Europe campaign to retain UK membership of the European Union. He has been included in the ""Time"" 100 list of world's most"
"Boris Jordan Boris Jordan (, born June 2, 1966) is an American businessman with Russian ancestry. He speaks both English and Russian fluently. Boris Jordan is the President and CEO of the Sputnik Group Ltd., which he launched in 1998. The Sputnik Group is a diversified holding company, which manages the Sputnik Funds, the largest foreign private-equity funds invested in Russia. Currently, The Sputnik Group owns proprietary investments in Russian insurance (Renaissance Insurance), forestry, telecommunications and media sectors – as well as a number of investments in foreign companies. Boris Jordan was one of the founders of Renaissance Capital investment"
"that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant that the two effectively shared power during the duration of the Cameron Government. Following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union and Cameron's consequent resignation, Osborne was sacked by newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May, and returned to the backbenches. He became editor of the ""Evening Standard"" in May 2017 and stepped down as an MP at the 2017 general election. George Osborne was born in Paddington, London, as Gideon Oliver Osborne; he decided when he was 13 to be known by the additional first name of 'George'. In"
"Scottish family name, Johnson is occasionally a variation of ""Johnston"", a habitational name. Johnson Johnson is a surname of English and Scottish origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name ""John"", literally meaning ""son of John"". The name ""John"" derives from Latin ""Johannes"", which is derived through Greek ""Iōannēs"" from Hebrew ""Yohanan"", meaning ""Yahweh has favoured"". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints. Johnson is the second most common"
"Boris (singer) Boris (real name : Philippe Dhondt, born on May 19, 1965, in Roubaix, France) is a French singer, songwriter, composer and radio host on Radio Galaxie (a radio in Nord-Pas-de-Calais). He participated in many dance projects and remains particularly famous for having created the character of Boris in the late 1990s, which had huge success with the top three hit singles ""Soirée disco"" and ""Miss Camping"", and for his hit ""Le Dormeur"", a top ten hit in France, recorded when he was member of Pleasure Game band, in 1991. He received ten Gold discs during the 1990s in"
"sociologist and Fisk University President Charles S. Johnson. Johnson's first name is taken from a Liberian chief, who reportedly saved his grandfather's life while he was on a League of Nations mission to Liberia in 1930. Johnson was born in New York City, the son of Norma (Edelin), who worked for Planned Parenthood, and Jeh Vincent Johnson, an architect. On March 18, 1994, Johnson married Susan Maureen DiMarco, a dentist, at Corpus Christi Church of New York City. The pair grew up across the street from each other in Wappingers Falls, New York. They have two children. Johnson was present"
"with whom he has one son and two daughters. After their divorce, he married Laura Jane Patient in 1991; the couple had a son born in 2000. The couple divorced in February 2014. In December 2015, Johnson married his third wife, businesswoman Carolyn Burgess. His hobbies include music, tennis, reading, cooking, football, and radio. He supports Queens Park Rangers. His memoir of childhood, ""This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood"", was published in 2013. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize (2014), and the Orwell Prize, Britain's top political writing award. His second volume of memoirs, ""Please, Mister"
"Benelux. Boris (singer) Boris (real name : Philippe Dhondt, born on May 19, 1965, in Roubaix, France) is a French singer, songwriter, composer and radio host on Radio Galaxie (a radio in Nord-Pas-de-Calais). He participated in many dance projects and remains particularly famous for having created the character of Boris in the late 1990s, which had huge success with the top three hit singles ""Soirée disco"" and ""Miss Camping"", and for his hit ""Le Dormeur"", a top ten hit in France, recorded when he was member of Pleasure Game band, in 1991. He received ten Gold discs during the 1990s"
"Johnson Johnson is a surname of English and Scottish origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name ""John"", literally meaning ""son of John"". The name ""John"" derives from Latin ""Johannes"", which is derived through Greek ""Iōannēs"" from Hebrew ""Yohanan"", meaning ""Yahweh has favoured"". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints. Johnson is the second most common in the United States and 154th most common in the world. As a"
"(107,201 votes). Johnson was born on January 1, 1953, in Minot, North Dakota, the son of Lorraine B. (née Bostow), who worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Earl W. Johnson, a public school teacher. In 1971, Johnson graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he was on the school track team. He attended the University of New Mexico from 1971 to 1975 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. While at UNM, he joined the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. It was there that he met his future wife, Denise ""Dee"" Simms."
"such as Tubal Uriah 'Buzz' Butler, bestowed on his son the name by which everyone came to know him."" Johnson was educated in Trinidad, attending San Fernando Government Secondary School and then technical college in Point Fortin. He subsequently worked with Alcoa in north Trinidad and with the Neal and Massey group, which manufactured cars. He won a scholarship to continue his studies as a mechanical engineer in Britain, where he migrated in 1971, living in London variously in Stoke Newington, Clapton and Homerton. He studied at Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University) and gained a master's degree at City of"
"Justice. The chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor, said that Johnson had ""damaged the reputation of football"" and that his chances of playing again were ""very remote"". Johnson attended school, and the academies of Sunderland and Middlesbrough, with Dale Roberts, who went on to play as a goalkeeper. Roberts committed suicide on 14 December 2010, which Johnson subsequently described as ""the worst day of my life"". Prior to his imprisonment, Johnson lived in Castle Eden, County Durham. He has a daughter, born in January 2015, with his former partner Stacey Flounders. In February 2016, while giving evidence at"
"Jo Johnson called on his Conservative Party MPs to vote down Theresa May's Brexit deal on 11 December 2018, stating that it was 'half baked' and the 'worst of both worlds'. Johnson resigned as a minister because he wants to be free to endorse a second referendum. Johnson lives in London with his wife, Amelia Gentleman, a journalist for ""The Guardian"", the daughter of artist and designer David Gentleman. The couple have two children. Jo Johnson Joseph Edmund Johnson (born 23 December 1971) is a British Conservative politician. Johnson became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington in 2010. In"
"Postman"", was published in September 2014. It won the Specsavers National Book Awards ""Autobiography of the Year"". His third and final volume of memoirs, ""The Long and Winding Road"", was published in September 2016. The titles of all three of his books are names of songs written by, or performed by, The Beatles. Alan Johnson Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and"
"Donald Johnson (British politician) Donald McIntosh Johnson (17 February 1903 – 5 November 1978) was a British general practitioner, author and politician who was a member of parliament for nine years. He regarded himself as a 'Cassandra' (one whose prophecies were true but never believed), and he was described by one observer as ""an eccentric man of considerable personal charm and egotistical obstinacy"" who had failed to prove it was possible to be both a Conservative and Independent MP at the same time. Johnson was from a Lancashire family and was sent to Cheltenham College (an Independent school), where he"
"human dignity and the environment, and for the major role he has played in helping to stabilise the world's financial system"". Speeches Gordon Brown James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair Government from 1997 to 2007. Brown was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2015, first for Dunfermline East and later for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. A doctoral graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Brown spent his"
"vote achieved by Boris Johnson remained the largest polled by winning mayoral candidate until Labour candidate, Sadiq Khan, received 1,148,716 first-preference votes in 2016. On 27 September 2007, Boris Johnson was announced as the Conservative candidate, having received 75% of the vote in an election open to the entire London electorate. The primary election was originally to be held in October 2006. Candidates who applied by the 4 August deadline included Richard Barnes, London Assembly member for Ealing and Hillingdon, who withdrew in July 2007 and announced his support for Boris Johnson; Andrew Boff, former Hillingdon and Hackney London Borough"
"Bob Johnson (butcher) Robert Alan Johnson (24 September 1940 – 10 August 2001) was a British butcher and businessman in the meat industry. He was chairman of Farepak. Johnson was born in St Giles's Hospital in Camberwell, England, United Kingdom, the youngest child and only son of Bert Johnson and his wife Lily (née Good). His father worked as a clerk at a meat depot. He and his mother were evacuated to Torbay during the Blitz. His father stayed in London to work, and his parents later separated and were divorced in 1948. Johnson was educated in Devon. He converted"
"Roger Johnson (TV presenter) Roger Johnson (born 1969) is an English television journalist and presenter, currently working as the main presenter for the regional news programme ""BBC North West Tonight"", as well as a regular weekend presenter of ""BBC Breakfast"" and other National BBC News platforms . Johnson was born in the former mining village of Chesterton, in Staffordshire in 1969, and grew up in the market town of Newcastle-under-Lyme (also in Staffordshire). He is the son of BBC Radio Stoke commentator Nigel Johnson. Johnson was educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme School, an independent school in his hometown of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire,"