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RICHARD JOHNSON

Richard M Johnson was an American politician. He was born in 1781 and died in 1850. He served in the Kentucky Legislature in 1804. He represented Kentucky in the US Congress as a Republican from 1807 to 1819. In 1813 he commanded a regiment in the war. In 1813 he fought at Chatham and in the Battle of the Thames, where he is said to have killed Tecumtha. He served in the US Senate from 1819 to 1829, and in the US House of Representatives from 1829 to 1837. He was elected Vice-President of the United States by the Senate in 1837, and served from 1837 to 1841, with Martin Van Buren as President.
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