Juan Trippe

He was played by Alec Baldwin in the movie The Aviator, a biopic of his rival, Howard Hughes. Named for Johnson are counties in Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Nebraska. Although it is commonly believed that Trippe was Cuban in whole or part, he was actually Northern European in ancestry. Together they had two daughters, Adaline Chinn Johnson and Imogene Chinn Johnson. In 1985, he was posthumously given the Medal of Freedom by United States president Ronald Reagan. After his first two wives died, the old Jacksonian Democrat had a common-law marriage with a former slave, Julia Chinn, whom he had inherited from his father. He passed away in 1981, in Los Angeles and is buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. His brothers James and John Telemachus and his nephew Robert Ward Johnson were all members of the House of Representatives, and, in the case of Robert Ward, a Senator as well.

Trippe gave up presidency of the airline in 1968. He is interred in the Frankfort Cemetery. But with the oil crisis of the 1970s, the airline deregulation act and many other world-wide situations, the airline suffered. Johnson was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1850, but he died in Frankfort, Kentucky soon after taking his seat. Pan Am was the first customer of the large jet. He served as vice President from March 4, 1837, to March 4, 1841. In 1965, Trippe asked his friend Bill Allen of Boeing to produce an airplane that was much bigger than the 707s and the result was the Boeing 747. He was selected as Martin Van Buren's Vice President by the Senate on February 8, 1837, after losing the support of some of his Presidential electors due to his relationship with an African-American woman.

The new jets allowed Pan Am to introduce lower fares and increase passenger numbers. He was elected to the 21st Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1829–March 3, 1837) He was chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and the Committee on Military Affairs. In October of 1958, Pan Am's first jet flight took off, a Boeing 707 taking off from Idlewild International Airport and landing in Paris. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1829. With this in mind, he ordered several of the Boeing 707 and McDonnell Douglas DC-8 airplanes. Crittenden, and was reelected and served from December 10, 1819 to March 3, 1829. But when jet aircraft began to be produced, Trippe saw an even bigger opportunity to attract a wider customer base. He was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J.

Trippe is credited as the father of the tourist class in the airline industry. He was credited by some with personally killing the Shawnee leader Tecumseh during the Battle of the Thames; despite the doubtful accuracy of this claim, Johnson would later use it to good effect in his political career. Pan Am was one of the few airlines that was largely unaffected by the situation. Johnson was commissioned a Colonel of Kentucky Volunteers and commanded a regiment in engagements against the British in Lower Canada in 1813. Trippe's airline kept on stretching worldwide as World War II progressed. He was chairman of the Committee on Claims and the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War. He believed that air travel could be enjoyed by the general public, not just the rich. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Tenth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3, 1819).

He always wanted Pan Am to be the standard setter in each of the airline industry's areas. He was admitted to the bar in 1802, and was a member of the state House of Representatives from 1804-1806 and again in 1819. Trippe became known for his innovations in the airline world. He was born at "Beargrass", Jefferson County, Kentucky, near the present site of Louisville, and attended Transylvania University. In the 1930s, Pan Am, with the famous Clipper planes, became the first airline to cross the Pacific. Richard Mentor Johnson (October 17, 1780–November 19, 1850) was a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren. Later, Trippe established the China National Aviation Corporation to provide domestic air service in the Republic of China, and became a partner in Panagra.

Pan Am's first flight took off on October 28, 1927, from Key West to Havana. Interested in operating to the Caribbean, Trippe created the Aviation Company of the Americas, based in Florida, which he used to take over and then merged into the fledgling Pan Am, then known as Pan American Airways. Along with some of his wealthy Yale friends Trippe invested in an airline named Colonial Air Transport. After receiving an inheritance he started working with New York Airways, an air-taxi service which served the rich and powerful.

Trippe graduated from Yale in 1921 and began working on Wall Street, but soon became bored. Juan Terry Trippe (June 27, 1899–April 3, 1981) was an airline entrepreneur and pioneer.