Question: Bender "Ben" Johnson Jr. was the chairman of the Makah during the first successful hunt of Eschrichtius robustus which is commonly known as what?
Context: John Seward Johnson II (born 16 April 1930), also known as J. Seward Johnson Jr. and Seward Johnson, is an American artist known for his "trompe l'oeil" painted bronze statues.  He is a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I, the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson and Colonel Thomas Melville Dill of Bermuda. Calvin A. Johnson Jr. (born November 21, 1985) is an American saxophonist, bandleader, composer, producer, and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.  A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known as a tenor and soprano saxophone player but also performs and records on alto and baritone saxophones, clarinet, and flute.  Johnson has worked with many of the biggest names in New Orleans music, including Aaron Neville, Harry Connick, Jr., the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Mystikal, Irvin Mayfield, Mannie Fresh, and others.  Johnson is the nephew of New Orleans clarinetist Ralph Johnson, a longtime member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.  Johnson began playing saxophone at the age of seven, and since 2008 has been playing with his own band, Calvin Johnson & Native Son.  In 2015, he started a new band with Dirty Dozen Brass Band founding member and sousaphone player, Kirk Joseph, called Chapter:SOUL. Samuel Johnson Jr. (March 10, 1757 – August 20, 1836) was the author of the first English dictionary compiled by an American, "A school dictionary: being a compendium of the latest and most improved dictionaries".  It was printed in New Haven, in 1798, by Edward O'Brien.  Martha Jane Gibson, from Yale University, sees Johnson Jr. as America's first lexicographer.  He was a schoolteacher, born in the town of Guilford, Connecticut. Rupert Harris Johnson Jr. (born 1941) is the Vice Chairman of the Board at Franklin Resources. Callulops robustus (commonly known as Boulenger's callulops frog or robust frog) is a species of frog in the Microhylidae family.  It has traditionally been considered as wide-ranging species found in both Western New Guinea (Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea.  However, it is likely that specimens from the type locality, Misima Island, and New Guinea represent different species.  If so, name "Callulops robustus" belongs to the Misima Island species, and the mainland species is unnamed.  Other island populations may or may not belong to "Callulops robustus". " Callulops microtis" from the mainland has already been removed from synonymy with "Callulops robustus". Juvenilia; or, a Collection of Poems Written between the ages of Twelve and Sixteen by J. H. L. Hunt, Late of the Grammar School of Christ's Hospital, commonly known as Juvenilia, was a collection of poems written by James Henry Leigh Hunt at a young age and published in March 1801.  As an unknown author, Hunt's work was not accepted by any professional publishers, and his father Isaac Hunt instead entered into an agreement with the printer James Whiting to have the collection printed privately.  The collection had over 800 subscribers, including important academics, politicians and lawyers, and even people from the United States.  The critical and public response to Hunt's work was positive; by 1803 the collection had run into four volumes.  The "Monthly Mirror" declared the collection to show "proofs of poetic genius, and literary ability", and Edmund Blunden held that the collection acted as a predictor of Hunt's later success.  Hunt himself came to despise the collection as "a heap of imitations, all but absolutely worthless", but critics have argued that without this early success to bolster his confidence Hunt's later career could have been far less successful. Bender "Ben" Johnson Jr. (May 22, 1939 - March 31, 2014) was an American Makah politician and fisheries expert.  He served as the chairman and member of the Makah Tribal Council from 1998 until 2000 and from 2001 until 2007.  He was chairman of the Makah during the first successful hunt of a Pacific gray whale in 1999.  The 1999 hunt, which took a 30-ton 30 1/2-foot female gray whale, was the first harvest of a whale by the Makah since the 1920s.  Johnson supported the hunt, which drew worldwide attention and controversy. The gray whale ("Eschrichtius robustus"), also known as the grey whale, gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly.  It reaches a length of 14.9 m , a weight of 36 t , and lives between 55 and 70 years.  The common name of the whale comes from the gray patches and white mottling on its dark skin.  Gray whales were once called devil fish because of their fighting behavior when hunted.  The gray whale is the sole living species in the genus Eschrichtius, which in turn is the sole living genus in the family Eschrichtiidae.  This mammal descended from filter-feeding whales that appeared at the beginning of the Oligocene, over 30 million years ago. Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American retired professional basketball player and current president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  He played point guard for the Lakers for 13 seasons.  After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA draft by the Lakers.  He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s.  Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had contracted HIV, but returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award.  After protests from his fellow players, he retired again for four years, but returned in 1996, at age 36, to play 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time. George William Johnson Jr. (July 5, 1928 – May 30, 2017) was an American academic and academic administrator who served as the President of George Mason University from 1978 to 1996.  Johnson is credited with transforming George Mason University from largely a commuter college into a nationally recognized research university during his 18-year tenure as president.  Under Johnson, total student enrollment doubled from 10,000 in 1979 to more than 24,000 students in 1996.  Johnson also oversaw the addition of 34 new academic programs (including 11 doctoral programs), the creation of GMU's first doctoral programs, and the establishment of the George Mason University School of Law (now known as the Antonin Scalia Law School) in 1979.
Answer: The gray whale