Johnson, Richard Mentor

Born in 1780 in the American settlement of Burgrass, Kentucky . After graduating from Transylvanian University in Lexington , he began to work as a lawyer. He began his political career in 1804 when he was elected representative of his district to the Kentucky House of Representatives. From 1807 to 1819, Johnson was the representative of his staff in the House of Representatives . During the Anglo-American War, he commanded a regiment operating in 1813 in Canada . According to one version, he personally killed the leader of the Indian tribal union - Tecumseh ^[1] . From 1819 to 1829, Johnson served as the representative of the State of Kentucky in the Senate , and from 1829 to 1837 he again worked in the House of Representatives.

In 1837, he took office as vice president at the office of Martin Van Buren . He became the first vice president elected under the Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution : since he did not cast the majority of the votes of all the electors, the question of vice president was sent to the Senate, where he decided in favor of Johnson. In this post, he worked until 1841 . In 1850, he returned to work in the Kentucky House of Representatives, but in November of that year he died of a stroke and was buried in Frankfort Cemetery.

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