Luci Baines Johnson

Luci Baines Johnson (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.

Early years 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 against 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 mother converted to the Episcopal Church, and she and her older sister, Lynda Bird, were raised Episcopalian. Johnson converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of 18, when she requested and received conditional baptism. Johnson had been baptized with water and in the name of the Trinity at five months old by an Episcopal priest in Austin, Texas. Her rebaptism caused protests from Episcopalian leaders, which made headlines as Roman Catholic teaching does not require a second baptism of converts Christians baptized using the Trinitarian formula and water. In 1966, she learned to cook from Zephyr Wright, the White House chef for the Johnson family.

Career Since 1993, Johnson has been the chairman of the board and manager of LBJ Asset Management Partners, a family office, as well as chairman of the Board of BusinesSuites, a national operator of executive suites, which she co-founded with her husband in 1989. She received a BLS in Communication from St. Edward's University in 1997.

Personal life Marriages and children

On August 6, 1966, Johnson married Air National Guardsman Patrick John Nugent (b. 1943) in front of 700 guests at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The wedding was broadcast on television (drawing 55 million viewers) and was featured on the August 19, 1966, cover of Life magazine.

Through her first marriage, Johnson has four children: Patrick Lyndon (b. 1967), Nicole Marie (b. 1970), Rebekah Johnson, and Claudia Taylor (b. 1976).

The couple later divorced, and the marriage was annulled by the Catholic Church in August 1979.

On March 3, 1984, she married Ian J. Turpin (b. 1944), a Scottish-born Canadian financier. He is president of LBJ Asset Management Partners at LBJ Ranch. Through that marriage, she has a stepson. She was flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to begin treatment. Johnson returned to Austin in May 2010. Her doctor called her case "less severe than usual," and she experienced a full recovery.