Fall 2020 - 1736 Magazine

Jordan Johnson’s
journey to the Augusta
Commission’s District 1 seat
may have begun in high school.
Although the teenager’s bedroom walls
were plastered with pictures of his favorite professional
wrestlers, his locker at south Augusta’s Cross Creek High
School was decorated with a magazine cover featuring the
famous 2009 photo of the five living presidents posing in the
White House's Oval Office.
But over the head of George W. Bush — Johnson's least
favorite of the five — the boy pasted a picture of his own face.
“I had such a wild imagination,” Johnson said. “Whenever
my friends would come by my locker and see it, they thought
I was weird. They said, ‘Why do you have your face on the
body of a president?’ I said, ‘I’m going to be on the cover a
magazine one day.’ ”
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