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Richard Mentor Johnson

1780 - 1850

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Richard Mentor Johnson (October 17, 1780 – November 19, 1850) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Mentor Johnson has received more than 1,057,946 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Mentor Johnson is the 11,303rd most popular politician (down from 10,052nd in 2019), the 4,130th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,726th in 2019) and the 276th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 11,303 out of 19,576. Before him are Ariarathes II of Cappadocia, Pietro Grasso, Stanko Todorov, Michael Sata, Mohammed Magariaf, and Eudokia, wife of Constantine V. After him are Pons, Count of Tripoli, Yitzhak Mordechai, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi III, Pierre Dartout, and Faustus Cornelius Sulla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 34. Before him are Alexandre Deschapelles, Robert Torrens, Reşid Mehmed Pasha, Göran Wahlenberg, Juana Azurduy de Padilla, and Alexey Venetsianov. After him are Johannes van den Bosch, Fulgencio Yegros, José Joaquín de Olmedo, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Henri Braconnot, and Karoline von Günderrode. Among people deceased in 1850, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 39. Before him are Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, Wilhelm Beer, Gustav Schwab, Bashir Shihab II, Lodewijk van Heiden, and Adalbert Gyrowetz. After him are Charles Rivière-Hérard, Václav Tomášek, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg, Vicente López Portaña, and Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 4,130 out of 20,380. Before him are Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), George C. Homans (1910), E. G. Marshall (1914), Allen Klein (1931), and Robert Anton Wilson (1932). After him are Sally Kirkland (1941), Terry Dischinger (1940), Raymond Moody (1944), Sammy Gravano (1945), Floyd Council (1911), and Edward Bellamy (1850).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 276. Before him are George M. Dallas (1792), John Nance Garner (1868), Chuck Hagel (1946), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Gus Hall (1910), and Lynne Cheney (1941). After him are Frank Carlucci (1930), Horace Greeley (1811), George Andrew Reisner (1867), Kellyanne Conway (1967), Lindsey Graham (1955), and Huey Long (1893).

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