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2 giorni fa · He received only 47 electoral votes, from Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, in the November 1836 election, trailing both Granger and the Democratic candidate, Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky. Harrison was the leading Whig candidate for president, but he lost to Van Buren.
3 giorni fa · Van Buren won the nomination over Philip P. Barbour (Calhoun's favored candidate) and Richard Mentor Johnson due to the support of Jackson and the strength of the Albany Regency.
1 giorno fa · Clay returned to federal office in 1831 by winning election to the Senate over Richard Mentor Johnson in a 73 to 64 vote of the Kentucky legislature. His return to the Senate after 20 years, 8 months, 7 days out of office, marks the fourth-longest gap in service to the chamber in history.
30 giu 2024 · Richard Mentor Johnson commanded the Kentucky cavalry; 5 brigades of Kentucky militia were led by Isaac Shelby, the sixty-three year-old governor of Kentucky and a hero of the American Revolutionary War.
11 giu 2024 · Meanwhile, the Whigs went on an aggressive smear campaign against both Van Buren and his running mate Richard Mentor Johnson.
26 giu 2024 · He also married the daughter of Benjamin Johnson, who was justice of the Superior Court of the territory (later the Supreme Court of Arkansas) and brother of Richard Mentor Johnson (hero of the War of 1812 and later Martin Van Buren’s vice president).
Now, as for the other senators, I selected John Quincy Adams for standing up to Pres. Hamilton and helping to block the reinstatement of the Alien & Sedition Acts, amongst other things. Richard Mentor Johnson was included for his progressive views on race that would ultimately cost him his life.
