OVERVIEW:

BORN:
October 17, 1780
Beargrass (now Louisville), Kentucky

DIED:
November 19, 1850 (age 70)
Frankfort, Kentucky

EDUCATION:
Transylvania University

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democratic-Republican (before 1828)
Democratic (after 1828)

HIGHLIGHTS: 
1802:
Admitted to the Kentucky Bar,
Began Practicing Law in Great Crossings, Kentucky 
1804-1806:
Member, Kentucky House of Representatives
1813:
Commissioned colonel of Kentucky Volunteers, 
Commanded a regiment in engagements against the British in lower Canada
1819:
Member, Kentucky House of Representatives
1807-1819:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives,
Elected as a Democrat from Kentucky
1819-1829:
U.S. Senator from Kentucky,
Elected as a Democratic-Republican 
Re-elected as Jackson Republican (later a Jacksonian)
1829-1837:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives
2/8/1837:
Selected as Vice President of the United States by the U.S. Senate under the 12th Amendment of the Constitution after no candidate received a majority of the electoral vote.  (Johnson is the only Vice President to be selected under the provisions of the  12th Amendment.) 
1837-1841:
Vice President of the United States
1850:
Member, Kentucky House of Representatives

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of  Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
Senate Historical Office
National Park Service
Washington Post
Wikipedia

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