"Boris Johnson pledged to review overseas offices and currently only the Beijing and Brussels offices are operational. The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone signed city partnerships during his terms with: During his mayoralty, Boris Johnson signed partnership agreements with New York City, Paris and Tokyo. Foreign relations of the Mayor of London The foreign relations of the Mayor of London are carried out as part of his responsibility to promote Greater London's global links on behalf of the British capital. In addition to work done as part of the 2012 London Olympics, the Greater London Authority (GLA) estimates that 700,000"
"(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."
"B. Ed Johnson Benjamin Edward Johnson (October 28, 1914 – June 8, 1983), known as B. Ed Johnson, was an American businessman, broadcaster and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. He resided in Columbus in Muscogee County, where he was the first elected mayor of that city, from 1965-1968. Johnson was born in 1914 to Edward Burton and Pamelia Weldon Johnson. His father was also a prominent citizen of the city, serving as the city's Superintendent of Public Works in the 1930s. B. Ed attended public schools in Columbus and married Martha Louise Noble in 1939. In 1945, Johnson"
"a welcoming presence in the streets of Greenwich Village, Johnson was known as the ""mayor of Christopher Street"". From 1987 through 1992, Johnson was an AIDS activist with ACT UP. Johnson was born Malcolm Michaels Jr. on August 24, 1945 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She had six siblings and her father, Malcolm Michaels Sr., was an assembly line worker at General Motors while her mother, Alberta Claiborne, was a housekeeper. Johnson attended an African Methodist Episcopal Church as a child and was a devout Christian throughout her life, often taking an interest in Catholicism and other faiths. Johnson first began"
"and roll. In 2003, David Fricke ranked Johnson fifth in ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's ""100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"". Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children. Charles Dodds had been forced by a lynch mob to leave Hazlehurst following a dispute with white landowners. Julia left Hazlehurst with baby Robert, but after two years sent the boy to Memphis to live"
"in various countries. Johnson was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College in 1963. He received a Bachelor of Laws from Brooklyn Law School in 1966. He was in the United States Marine Corps from 1952 to 1955. He was a police officer of the New York City Police Department from 1956 to 1967. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of the Southern District of New York from 1967 to 1970. He was the executive director of the Civilian Complaint Review Board of the New York City Police Department from 1970"
"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"
"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"
"of their desegregation lawsuits in the Deep South and also to combat the proposed elimination of remedial education on City University of New York system campuses. Johnson went on to earn a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Public Interest Scholar and a member of the Journal of International Economic Law, and a Master of Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, both in 2003.[1] Johnson lives in Dallas with his wife, Nakita, and son, William. They are members of the Skillman Church of"
"Manhattan in New York City, to British parents. His birth was registered with both the US authorities and the city's British Consulate thereby granting him both American and British citizenship. His father, Stanley Johnson, was then studying economics at Columbia University. Stanley's paternal grandfather was Circassian-Turkish journalist Ali Kemal, while his other ancestry is English, German and French. A 2008 episode of BBC's ""Who Do You Think You Are?"" found that his German great-great-great-grandmother, Karoline von Rothenburg, was the illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg by an actress. Prince Paul was himself a descendant of King George II of"
"1999), polled American historians and social scientists to find the best city mayors throughout U.S. history. They placed Johnson second on the list, behind only Fiorello La Guardia of New York City. Johnson's brother Albert was also prominent in the streetcar business. In 1889, he became the financial backer and organizer of the Players' League, a major baseball league begun by the players themselves, in order to get a fair share of profits. Tom L. Johnson Tom Loftin Johnson (July 18, 1854 in Georgetown, Kentucky – April 10, 1911 in Cleveland, Ohio) was an American industrialist, Georgist politician, and important"
"Obama. Johnson was born in Detroit in 1958. He is of African-American and Native American ancestry. While living in Germany, where his father was stationed in the Army, Shelton, at five years of age, went on a family vacation to the Berchtesgaden area in Germany's Bavarian Alps, which later became the Berchtesgaden National Park. He describes this visit as influential in developing his awe for mountains and the sky. His family also visited the Black Forest. Johnson graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1976. He attended college at the University of Michigan, where he graduated with a B.A. degree"
"1918 and grew up in Haleyville in northern Alabama, long an independent-minded part of the state. Winston County had opposed secession from the Union during the American Civil War. Johnson graduated from the University of Alabama and later the University of Alabama School of Law with a Bachelor of Laws in 1943, and passed the bar. He married Ruth Jenkins, a classmate from the University of Alabama. (Another classmate was George C. Wallace, future governor of the state, who became Johnson's ""bête noire"" during the civil rights era of the 1960s.) Johnson served in the United States Army in Europe"
"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"
"played a key role in keeping Britain neutral while southern agents were trying to achieve official recognition of the Confederacy. That meant conducting dialogue with both sides and monitoring the British connection in the supply of commerce raiders. He became an overseer of Harvard University, and built Adams National Historical Park, a library in honor of his father in Quincy, Massachusetts. Adams was born in Boston on August 18, 1807. He was one of three sons and a daughter born to John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) and Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775–1852). His older brothers were George Washington Adams (1801–1829) and John"
"consequences of what he called the ""American Empire"": ""Blowback"", ""The Sorrows of Empire"", and ""Nemesis; The Last Days of the American Republic"". A former cold warrior, he feared that, ""A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship."" Johnson was born in 1931 in Phoenix, Arizona to David Frederick Johnson Jr. and Katherine Marjorie (Ashby) Johnson. He earned a BA in economics in"
"Nelson Johnson Nelson Johnson (born 1948) is an American lawyer, judge and author, best known for his ""New York Times"" bestseller, ""Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City"". Johnson grew up in South Jersey, USA. Johnson worked at Atlantic City's planning board during the 1980s. As of 2014 he is an Atlantic County Superior Court Judge. and tries mass tort cases. Nelson's book ""Boardwalk Empire"" was the basis for the HBO drama series ""Boardwalk Empire"". Its sequel is ""The Northside: African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City"". In 2010, Nelson was asked by the New"
"districts in the entire state. Johnson was born on October 10, 1975 in Dallas, Texas. He attended Sudie Williams Elementary and C.F. Carr Elementary in the Dallas Independent School District until the second grade, when he received a scholarship to attend Greenhill School through the West Dallas Boys & Girls Club. Johnson graduated from Greenhill School in 1994. Johnson went on to attend Harvard University and was a resident of Cabot House. He was initiated into Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity his sophomore year and headed up the community service efforts of both that organization and the Harvard Black Students Association,"
"him at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Edward Johnson (mayor) Edward Johnson (1767–1829) was an American politician and businessman. He was a native of Baltimore, Maryland and served as that city's mayor for six terms between 1808 and 1824. A staunch member of Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party, he led Baltimore during the War of 1812 and was instrumental in organizing the civilian defense of the city. For several years he was the owner of one of Baltimore's largest breweries and also served as a director of the Bank of Baltimore. Johnson was born in Baltimore in 1767, the son"
"Mexico. Johnson's parents were then living in an apartment opposite the Chelsea Hotel, although they soon embarked on a tour of Canada and New England with their newborn. In September 1964, they returned to Britain, enabling Charlotte to study for a degree at the University of Oxford. She lived with her son in Summertown, Oxford and gave birth to a daughter, Rachel, in 1965. In July 1965, the family moved to Crouch End in North London; in February 1966, they relocated to Washington D.C., where Stanley had gained employment with the World Bank. A third child, Leo, was born in"
"academic studies and leadership of Fisk University during the 1930s and 1940s, the South had legal racial segregation and Jim Crow discriminatory laws and practices, including having disfranchised most black voters in constitutions passed at the turn of the century. Johnson was unwavering in personal terms in his opposition to this oppressive system, yet worked hard to change race relations in terms of short-term practical gains. His grandson Jeh Johnson served as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017. Johnson was born in 1893 in Bristol, Virginia, to well-educated parents. His father was a respected Baptist"
"treatment of African Americans in the Great War. There was a long struggle to achieve awards for him from the U.S. military. He was finally awarded the Purple Heart in 1996. In 2002, the U.S. military awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross. Previous efforts to secure the Medal of Honor failed, but in 2015 he was posthumously honored with the award. Johnson said that he was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on July 15, 1892, when he registered for the World War I draft, but he used other dates on other documents, so he might not have known the exact"
"his day. Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine, the eighth and last child of Philip Carrigan Johnson and Mary Kimball Chandler (born in New Hampshire, October 18, 1796, married 1818). His elder siblings were Philip, sisters Harriet, Judith, Mary, Sarah, and Nell, and brother Reuben. (His eldest brother Philip became a Commodore in the United States Navy and father of Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson.) Eastman grew up in Fryeburg and Augusta, where the family lived at Pleasant Street and later at 61 Winthrop Street. His father was the owner of several businesses, and active in fraternal organizations: he was"
"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"
"He was the oldest of five children born to Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. and Rebekah Baines. Johnson had one brother, Sam Houston Johnson, and three sisters; Rebekah, Josefa, and Lucia. The nearby small town of Johnson City, Texas, was named after LBJ's cousin, James Polk Johnson, whose forebears had moved west from Georgia. Johnson had English, German, and Ulster Scots ancestry. His patrilineal descent traces back to John Johnson, born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland in 1590. He was maternally descended from pioneer Baptist clergyman George Washington Baines, who pastored eight churches in Texas, as well as others in Arkansas and Louisiana."
"that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years collapsed. After he left office in January 1969, Johnson returned to his Texas ranch, where he died of a heart attack at age 64, on January 22, 1973. Johnson is ranked favorably by many historians because of his domestic policies and the passage of many major laws that affected civil rights, gun control, wilderness preservation, and Social Security, although he has also drawn substantial criticism for his escalation of the Vietnam War. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, near Stonewall, Texas, in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River."
"Task of Negro Womanhood"" in his 1925 anthology """", is an early example of African-American feminist writing. Gertrude Elise Johnson was born in New York City, where her father, Dr. Peter Augustus Johnson, was one of the first African-American doctors and a founder of the National Urban League. Her mother was Mary Elizabeth Whitted, an English woman from the Isle of Wight, and her older brother, Travis James Johnson, was the first African-American graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1908. He was born in Chichester, England, in 1883, and the family moved to New York in"
"the 1980’s he also became a member of the Serpentine Running Club and ran several London Marathons. A great ally of David Bedford and a leading administrator in athletics. Derek Johnson (runner) Derek Johnson (5 January 1933 – 30 August 2004) was a British track and field athlete, who was born in Chigwell, Essex, and educated at East Ham Grammar School. He did his National Service in Egypt before going up to Lincoln College, Oxford, to read medicine in 1953. Whilst at Oxford, he pursued an athletics career and, in the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, he"
"cancer in 2001. Johnson was born 9 March 1915 in Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, to Alfred Johnson and Beatrice May Johnson. He lived and was brought up in Melton Mowbray, where his father was a policeman. Alfred Johnson was an Inspector by the mid-1930s. One evening Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, held a meeting in the town. The license for the meeting expired at 22:00 at which time Alfred Johnson went alone and ejected the Fascists from the building. Johnson was educated at Camden Street Junior School and Loughborough Grammar School. Johnson's uncle, Edgar Charles"
"also helped to deter the Sacramento Kings basketball team from moving to Anaheim, and, later, to Seattle, Washington. Johnson, the son of Georgia West and Lawrence Johnson, was born March 4, 1966, in Sacramento. After his father died in a boating accident when he was three, Johnson was raised by his grandparents, the Peat family. He attended Sacramento High School, where he starred in both baseball and basketball. In his senior year, Johnson led the state of California in scoring (32.5 ppg) and was named the Northern California Player of the Year. Johnson accepted a scholarship to play basketball for"
"in the Canadian Journal of Economics. He was born on 26 May 1923 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the elder son of two children of Henry Herbert Johnson, newspaperman and later secretary of the Liberal Party of Ontario, and his wife, Frances Lily Muat, lecturer in child psychology at the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto. Johnson was educated at the University of Toronto schools and then obtained scholarships to the University of Toronto, where he studied law and economics. According to W. Max Corden in the ""Oxford Dictionary of Biography"", it was at this time that he"
"Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1949 to Joseph Charles Wilson, III, and Phyllis (Finnell) Wilson; he grew up in California and Europe (Wilson, ""The Politics of Truth"" 32–33). He was raised in a ""proud Republican family"" in which ""there [was] a long tradition of politics and service to the farm"" and for which ""[p]olitics was a staple around the table"" (Wilson, ""The Politics of Truth"" 31). His mother's uncle, James ""Sunny Jim"" Rolph, was mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1912 to 1931 and served as California's governor until his 1934 death in office (""The Politics of Truth"" 31). Wilson's mother's brothers"
"date, this one is the most often claimed) in Atlanta, Georgia. She died in 1966 in the District of Columbia, USA. Born and raised American, Johnson was a teacher, writer, and social reformer. She worked to reform the oppression of Black people such as herself. She was college educated at Atlanta University in Georgia USA, Howard University in Washington DC, and Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Johnson's mother was Laura Jackson, a woman with Black and Indian ancestry, and her father was George Camp, a wealthy Englishman. Little is known about her family, as her mother worked often and she"