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Johnson #1 family of Kentucky

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This specific family group is a subset of the much larger Four Thousand Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

  James Johnson (1774-1826) — of Kentucky. Born in Orange County, Va., January 1, 1774. Democrat. Member of Kentucky state senate, 1808; colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1820 (voted for James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins); U.S. Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1825-26; died in office 1826. Died in Washington, D.C., August 13, 1826 (age 52 years, 224 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Scott County, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Robert 'Robin' Johnson and Jemima (Suggett) Johnson; brother of Richard Mentor Johnson, Benjamin Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson; married 1796 to Nancy Payne; uncle of Robert Ward Johnson.
  Political family: Johnson #1 family of Kentucky (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
Richard M. Johnson Richard Mentor Johnson (1780-1850) — also known as Richard M. Johnson — of Great Crossings, Scott County, Ky. Born in Jefferson County, Ky., October 17, 1780. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1804; U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1807-19, 1829-37 (4th District 1807-13, at-large 1813-15, 3rd District 1815-19, 5th District 1829-33, 13th District 1833-37); U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1819-29; Vice President of the United States, 1837-41; defeated, 1840; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1844. Member, Freemasons. Slaveowner. Died in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., November 19, 1850 (age 70 years, 33 days). Interment at Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Robert 'Robin' Johnson and Jemima (Suggett) Johnson; brother of James Johnson, Benjamin Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson; married to Julia Chinn; uncle of Robert Ward Johnson.
  Political family: Johnson #1 family of Kentucky (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Johnson counties in Ill., Iowa, Ky., Mo. and Neb. are named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Richard Mentor Johnson: William Emmons, Authentic biography of Colonel Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky — Leland Winfield Meyer, The life and time of Colonel Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky — Jonathan Milnor Jones, The making of a Vice President: The national political career of Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky
  Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)
  Benjamin Johnson (1784-1849) — Born in Scott County, Ky., January 22, 1784. U.S. District Judge for Arkansas, 1836-49; died in office 1849. Died in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., October 2, 1849 (age 65 years, 253 days). Interment at Mt. Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Johnson and Jemima (Suggett) Johnson; brother of James Johnson, Richard Mentor Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson; married to Matilda Williams; father of Robert Ward Johnson.
  Political family: Johnson #1 family of Kentucky (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also federal judicial profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
  John Telemachus Johnson (1788-1856) — also known as John T. Johnson — of Georgetown, Scott County, Ky. Born in Great Crossings, Scott County, Ky., October 5, 1788. Minister; lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1810; U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1821-25 (3rd District 1821-23, 5th District 1823-25); Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1826. Christian. Slaveowner. Died in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., December 17, 1856 (age 68 years, 73 days). Interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Robert 'Robin' Johnson and Jemima (Suggett) Johnson; brother of James Johnson, Richard Mentor Johnson and Benjamin Johnson; married, October 9, 1811, to Sophie E. Lewis; uncle of Robert Ward Johnson.
  Political family: Johnson #1 family of Kentucky (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Ambrose Hundley Sevier (1801-1848) — also known as Ambrose H. Sevier — of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark.; Lakeport, Chicot County, Ark. Born in Greene County, Tenn., November 4, 1801. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Arkansas territorial House of Representatives, 1823-27; Speaker of Arkansas Territory House of Representatives, 1827; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Arkansas Territory, 1828-36; U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1836-48; resigned 1848. Slaveowner. Died near Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark., December 31, 1848 (age 47 years, 57 days). Interment at Mt. Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
  Relatives: Brother-in-law of Robert Ward Johnson; father of Anna Maria Sevier (who married Thomas James Churchill); grandnephew of John Sevier; first cousin of Henry Wharton Conway, James Sevier Conway, William Conway and Elias Nelson Conway; second cousin twice removed of David Henry Cox, George Taylor Conway and Walter B. Conway; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Mitchell Conway.
  Political families: Conway #1 family of Little Rock, Arkansas; Johnson #1 family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Robert Ward Johnson (1814-1879) — also known as Robert W. Johnson — of Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Ark. Born in Scott County, Ky., July 22, 1814. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1847-53; U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1853-61; Delegate from Arkansas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Senator from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65. Slaveowner. Died in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark., July 26, 1879 (age 65 years, 4 days). Interment at Mt. Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
  Relatives: Son of Benjamin Johnson and Matilda (Williams) Johnson; brother-in-law of Ambrose Hundley Sevier; married 1836 to Sarah Frances Smith; married 1863 to Laura Smith; father of Sallie Frances Johnson (who married Joseph Cabell Breckinridge); nephew of James Johnson, Richard Mentor Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson.
  Political families: Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardson family of Virginia; Johnson #1 family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1844-1906) — also known as J. Cabell Breckinridge — of Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky. Born in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., December 28, 1844. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; cotton grower; U.S. Surveyor-General for Washington, 1886-89. Died, from malaria, in Yonkers, Westchester County, N.Y., January 8, 1906 (age 61 years, 11 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of John Cabell Breckinridge and Mary Breckinridge; brother of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge; married, December 1, 1869, to Sallie Frances Johnson (daughter of Robert Ward Johnson); father of Laura Cyrene Breckinridge (daughter-in-law of John Conover Ten Eyck); grandson of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823); grandnephew of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; great-grandson of John Breckinridge; second great-grandson of John Witherspoon; second great-grandnephew of William Preston and William Cabell; first cousin once removed of Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of James Douglas Breckinridge and Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell; first cousin thrice removed of William Cabell Jr., Francis Smith Preston, William Henry Cabell and James Patton Preston; second cousin of Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; second cousin once removed of Carter Henry Harrison, William Lewis Cabell, George Craighead Cabell and John Breckinridge Castleman; second cousin twice removed of William Campbell Preston, James McDowell, Frederick Mortimer Cabell, John Buchanan Floyd, John Smith Preston, George Rogers Clark Floyd and Edward Carrington Cabell; third cousin of Benjamin Earl Cabell and Carter Henry Harrison II; third cousin once removed of John William Leftwich and Earle Cabell.
  Political families: Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardson family of Virginia; Johnson #1 family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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