Richard Mentor Johnson
BIRTH
Oct 17, 1780
Louisville, Kentucky
DEATH
November 19, 1850
Frankfort, Kentucky
Vice-President of the United States
1837-1841
FAMILY
FATHER:
Adaline Johnson Scott
(c. 1812-1836)
##
Johnson, Richard Mentor
(1780-1850)
Richard Mentor Johnson was a Kentucky soldier and politician who served in Congress and as vice president under Martin Van Buren. He gained national fame during the War of 1812, claiming to have killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames.
0
Imogene Johnson Pence
Adaline Johnson Scott
(c. 1812-1836)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
DIED:
Frankfort, Kentucky
Nov 19, 1850
Richard Mentor Johnson was born on Oct 17, 1780 in Louisville, Kentucky. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Richard Mentor Johnson with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Richard Mentor Johnson died on Nov 19, 1850 in Frankfort, Kentucky. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.