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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on four broad areas: Health Leadership; Health Systems; Healthy Communities; and Healthy Children and Families.
Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His father was Robert Wood Johnson I, co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, and his mother was Evangeline Brewster Armstrong Johnson. Johnson grew up with three siblings: Roberta Johnson, John Seward Johnson I, and Evangeline Johnson. When he was sixteen, their father died, leaving him an estate of $2,000,000. He attended the prestigious Rutgers ...
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Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His father was Robert Wood Johnson II, president and chair of Johnson & Johnson, and his mother was Elizabeth Dixon Ross Johnson. An only child, his parents divorced in 1928 and his father married two more times, first in 1930 and again in 1944.
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Image courtesy: Johnson & Johnson Archives. Robert Wood Johnson II, son of the company founder, became president in 1932. During World War II, Johnson was promoted to the military rank of one-star brigadier general, earning his nickname, “the General.”
Robert Wood "General" Johnson II (April 4, 1893 – January 30, 1968) was an American businessman. He was one of the sons of Robert Wood Johnson I, the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson. He turned the family business into one of the world's largest healthcare corporations.
