Johnson, Reverdy

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Reverdy Johnson
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    St. John’s College, MD
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Whig
    Government
    Taylor Administration (1849-50)
    Johnson Administration (1865-69)
    Diplomat
    US Senate
    State legislature
    Other state government

    Reverdy Johnson (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    JOHNSON, Reverdy,  (brother-in-law of Thomas Fielder Bowie), a Senator from Maryland; born in Annapolis, Md., May 21, 1796; graduated, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md., 1811; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice in Upper Marlboro; deputy attorney general of Maryland 1816-1817; moved to Baltimore in 1817; appointed chief commissioner of insolvent debtors of Maryland in 1817; member, State senate 1821-1829; resumed the practice of law in Baltimore; elected to the United States Senate as a Whig and served from March 4, 1845, to March 7, 1849, when he resigned to become Attorney General; appointed by President Zachary Taylor Attorney General of the United States 1849-1850; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; member, State house of representatives 1860-1861; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1863, to July 10, 1868, when he resigned; United States Minister to England in 1868 and 1869; returned to Baltimore, Md., where he resumed the practice of his profession; compiler of the reports of decisions of the Maryland Court of Appeals; died in Annapolis, Md., February 10, 1876; interment in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
    “Johnson, Reverdy,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000169.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Steiner, Bernard Christian. Life of Reverdy Johnson. 1914. Reprint, New York: Russell & Russell, 1970. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Johnson, Reverdy," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5992.