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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, serving 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 987,206 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Richard Mentor Johnson is the 10,080th most popular politician (down from 8,689th in 2019), the 3,736th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,215th in 2019) and the 230th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 10,080 out of 15,577Before him are Ilie Verdeț, Ur-Ninurta, Bisinus, Saad Hariri, Elisabeth of Nuremberg, and Ingelger. After him are Andronikos II of Trebizond, Reiner Klimke, Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia, Theodora Angelina, Michael of Trebizond, and Luis Donaldo Colosio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 29Before him are Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Anastasio Bustamante, Johannes van den Bosch, Alexandre Deschapelles, Göran Wahlenberg, and Conradin Kreutzer. After him are Élie, duc Decazes, Alexey Venetsianov, Fulgencio Yegros, Juana Azurduy de Padilla, August Leopold Crelle, and José Joaquín de Olmedo. Among people deceased in 1850, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 39Before him are Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Charles Rivière-Hérard, and Václav Tomášek. After him are Vicente López Portaña, Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, Garlieb Merkel, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, and Bashir Shihab II.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 3,736 out of 18,182Before him are Dustin Moskovitz (1984), Peter Strauss (1947), David Boreanaz (1969), John C. Woods (1911), Arthur Janov (1924), and Alexandra Daddario (1986). After him are James Marsden (1973), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Thomas Sowell (1930), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Booker T. Washington (1856), and Eric Singer (1958).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Richard Mentor Johnson ranks 230Before him are John C. Breckinridge (1821), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), R. Budd Dwyer (1939), Judith Reisman (1935), Bobby Seale (1936), and Spotted Elk (1826). After him are Gabriel Almond (1911), Lunalilo (1835), George McGovern (1922), Caspar Weinberger (1917), Frances Cleveland (1864), and Daniel D. Tompkins (1774).