“Unlike Jefferson, Clay, Poindexter and others I married my wife under the eyes of God, and apparently He has found no objections.”
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Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the ninth vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 under President Martin Van Buren. He is the only vice president elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. He began and…
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politics · Vice President of the United States from 1837 to 1841 · politician · lawyer · jurist · also Richard Mentor Johnson, Richard Johnson, Richard M. Johnson, Johnson
Born 17 October 1780 · Died 19 November 1850 · Q109463
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2026· 10 entries
“s authority must be respected, and her role allowing her children”
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New York Daily News: RICHARD JOHNSON: Bradley Cooper, Gigi Hadid were secretly married in Paris
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Daily Mirror: Brian Hughes joins Sir AP McCoy and Richard Johnson by reaching 2,000 winner landmark
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NZ Herald: Richard JOHNSON Obituary (2026) - The New Zealand Herald
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Mshale: THE NIGHT CHILD Official Trailer (1975, Richard Johnson, Joanna Cassidy, Lila Kedrova) Landman (SyZp9CeEYK)
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Cricinfo: Richard Johnson Debut and last played matches in Tests, ODIs, T20Is and other formats
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Cricinfo: Richard Johnson Records, Test match, ODI, T20, IPL international batting bowling fielding records
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goodshepherdfh.net: Obituary for Richard Brian Johnson
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ArchDaily: Galería de AnA Sydney con Angelo Candalepas y Richard Johnson - 1
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Richard Mentor Johnson
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2010· 1 entry
“Extreme Pornography Law in the UK”
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1999· 1 entry
“The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource”
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1998· 1 entry
“Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism”
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1850· 3 entries
Died 1850-11-19.
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But died on November 19, 1850, just two weeks into his term
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When he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives
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1848· 1 entry
But after talking with the Democratic candidate, Lazarus W
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1845· 1 entry
Served as a pallbearer when Daniel Boone was re-interred in Frankfort Cemetery
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1837· 3 entries
Divided mostly along party lines, with Johnson becoming vice-president by a vote of 33, as opposed to 16 for Francis Granger; three senators were absent
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Van Buren was found to have received 170 votes for president, but Johnson had received only 147 for vice-president
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Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1837–1841).
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1833· 3 entries
Nine days after Jackson and Van Buren were inaugurated
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Career landmark: United States representative (1833–1837).
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There was still dissension related to Johnson's open relationship with a slave
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1832· 1 entry
But Johnson abandoned his campaign when Andrew Jackson announced he would seek a second term
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1830· 1 entry
There arose a groundswell of public support for Johnson's "pet project" of ending debt imprisonment
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1829· 4 entries
(related to delivery of mail on the Sabbath)
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Johnson argued that government was "a civil, and not a religious institution", and as such could not legislate the tenets of any particular denomination
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“a civil, and not a religious institution”
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Eventually gave the movement fresh life, and a limited bill was passed in 1832
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1828· 3 entries
Johnson was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election, owing in part to his relationship with the biracial slave Julia Chinn, with whom he lived in a common-law marriage
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Forcing Johnson to leave in 1829, but his Congressional district voted for him and returned him to the House the same year
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But again, the House failed to act on it, and the measure died for some years, owing to Johnson's exit from the Senate the next year
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1827· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1827–1829).
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1825· 2 entries
Was overseen by Johnson; and not only was part of treaty negotiations with the Choctaw Nation but appealed to his colleagues as a form "peaceful conquest" or "expansion with honor" as Henry Knox put it
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Career landmark: United States senator (1825–1827).
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1824· 1 entry
It passed the Senate but was too late to be acted upon by the House
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1823· 2 entries
Johnson proposed in the Senate that the government fund an expedition to the center of the Earth
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Career landmark: United States senator (1823–1825).
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1822· 2 entries
Pointing to the positive effects its cessation had effected in his home state
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So that in total, his Senate tenure ran from December 10, 1819, to March 4, 1829
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1821· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1821–1823).
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Introduced legislation chartering Columbian College (later The George Washington University) in Washington, D
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1820· 1 entry
A report found that James Johnson had overcharged the government by $76,000
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1819· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1819–1821).
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1818· 4 entries
Legislators chose William Logan over Johnson, 67–55
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An act of Congress requested that the President of the United States present to Johnson a sword in honor of his "daring and distinguished valor" at the Battle of the Thames
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Calhoun approved an expedition to build a military outpost near the present site of Bismarck, North Dakota on the Yellowstone River; Johnson awarded the contract to his brother James
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Partnering with the Kentucky Baptist Society, but the school folded in 1821 after it failed to gain the support of the federal government or private donors
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1817· 3 entries
Congress investigated General Andrew Jackson's execution of two British subjects during the First Seminole War
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President James Monroe's first choice for Secretary of War was Henry Clay, who declined the position
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To spend that money on internal improvements
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1812· 1 entry
Johnson's men reached Fort Wayne in time to save it, and turned back an Indian ambush
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1811· 1 entry
Not to renew the charter of the First Bank of the United States
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1809· 1 entry
Johnson supported Jefferson in adopting the administration's proposal to replace the Embargo Act with the Non-Intercourse Act, as the embargo had proven ineffective except in causing a serious recession in the United Sta
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1806· 1 entry
Johnson was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the United States House of Representatives, serving as the first native Kentuckian to be elected to Congress
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1804· 1 entry
Johnson ran for the Kentucky House of Representatives for Scott County (where Great Crossing is) and this time was elected, the first native Kentuckian to serve in the state's legislature
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1803· 1 entry
But finished third, behind the winner, Thomas Sandford, and William Henry
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1802· 1 entry
And opened his law office at Great Crossing
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1801· 1 entry
Many young, democratically minded aspiring politicians were seeking office
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1780· 1 entry
Born 1780-10-17.
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