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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

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Jack Johnson
Age: 68 †
Born: 1878
Born: March 31
Died: 1946
Died: June 10
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Galveston
Texas
John Johnson
John Arthur Johnson
Galveston Giant
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