Johnson, Reverdy

Life Span
to
Full name
Reverdy Johnson
Place of Birth
Annapolis, MD
Burial Place
Baltimore, MD
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.
Date Event
In Annapolis, the Maryland Legislature elects Reverdy Johnson as United States Senator
Famed Maryland lawyer and statesman Reverdy Johnson meets with accused conspirator Mary Surratt in her cell
In Washington D.C., the U.S. Senate names its six members of the new Joint Committee on Reconstruction
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States
Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
Fortieth Congress of the United States
Date Title
Reverdy Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, September 05, 1862
Date Title
Debate Over Thanks to Gen. Taylor and Army Resolution, US Senate, February 3, 1847
Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "The Little Giant," September 2, 1858
Stephen Duncan to Mary Duncan, August 25, 1863, Natchez, Mississippi.
"The Culprits," Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1866
Conclusions, Majority Report of the Joint Committee of the United States Senate and House of Representatives on Reconstruction, June 8, 1866, Washington, D.C.
Date Title
Abraham Lincoln to Reverdy Johnson, Washington, DC, July 26, 1862
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.