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	Reverdy Johnson
		JOHNSON, Reverdy, statesman, born in Annapolis, Maryland, 21 May, 1796; died there, 10 February, 1876 He was educated at St. John's college, studied law with his father, John Johnson, chancellor of the state, and was admitted to the bar in 1815.
		Johnson was invariably outspoken in his opinions of all public matters, his decided opposition to the proscriptive doctrines of the "Know-Nothing" party led him, together with many of the Whig leaders in Maryland, to unite with the Democrats in 1856 and in the subsequent support of Buchanan's administration.
		Johnson joined the Douglas wing of the party, and was active in his efforts to secure its success, he was a member of the peace congress in Washington in 1861 and in 1862.
	famousamericans.net /reverdyjohnson (885 words)

	Reverdy Johnson - LoveToKnow 1911
		REVERDY JOHNSON (1796-1876), American political leader and jurist, was born at Annapolis, Maryland, on the 21st of May 1796.
		His father, John Johnson (1770-1824), was a distinguished lawyer, who served in both houses of the Maryland General Assembly, as attorney-general of the state (1806-1811), as a judge of the court of appeals (1811-1821), and as a chancellor of his state (1821-1824).
		In 1817 he removed to Baltimore, where he became the professional associate of Luther Martin, William Pinkney and Roger B. Taney; with Thomas Harris he reported the decisions of the court of appeals in Harris and Johnson's Reports (1820-1827); and in 1818 he was appointed chief commissioner of insolvent debtors.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Reverdy_Johnson (476 words)

	Reverdy Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		REVERDY JOHNSON was born in Annapolis, Maryland, on the 21st of May, 1796.
		Reverdy Johnson studied law with his father, and entered upon practice in Prince George's county, and in the city of Annapolis, in his native State.
		Johnson negotiated a treaty with the British Government covering the Alabama Claims, the Northwestern boundary controversy, etc. This treaty was laid before the Senate in February 1869, and after discussion rejected, only one or two votes being recorded in its favor.
	www.all-biographies.com /politicians/reverdy_johnson.htm (998 words)

	Today in History: May 21
		Johnson represented Maryland, a slaveholding state south of the Mason-Dixon line, in the U.S. Senate from 1845-49 and again from 1863-68.
		Although he personally opposed slavery, Johnson represented the slave-owning defendant in the 1857 Dred Scott case in which the U.S. Supreme Court decided that slaves could not be citizens of the United States.
		When impeachment proceedings were brought against Andrew Johnson, largely for his lenient treatment of the South, Reverdy Johnson was instrumental in securing the President's acquittal.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/may21.html (613 words)

	Reverdy Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reverdy Johnson (May 21, 1796 – February 10, 1876) was a statesman and jurist from Maryland.
		Born in Annapolis, Johnson was the son of a distinguished Maryland lawyer and politician, John Johnson (1770 - 1824).
		After the capture of New Orleans, he was commissioned by President Abraham Lincoln to revise the decisions of the military commandant, General B.F. Butler, in regard to foreign governments, and reversed all those decisions to the entire satisfaction of the administration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reverdy_Johnson (583 words)

	Johnson, Reverdy - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Johnson won a reputation as one of the ablest constitutional lawyers of the period.
		His constitutional argument as counsel for the defense in the Dred Scott Case is known to have greatly influenced the Supreme Court, particularly Chief Justice Roger Taney.
		A Whig and then a conservative Democrat, Johnson was sympathetic with the South but was absolutely opposed to secession and used his influence to keep Maryland in the Union.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-johnsonr1e.html (370 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Johnson,
		Johnson, Andrew JOHNSON, ANDREW [Johnson, Andrew] 1808-75, 17th President of the United States (1865-69), b.
		Johnson, Lyndon Baines JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES [Johnson, Lyndon Baines] 1908-73, 36th President of the United States (1963-69), b.
		Johnson, Richard Mentor JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR [Johnson, Richard Mentor] 1780-1850, Vice President of the United States (1837-41), b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Johnson, (692 words)

	Reverdy Johnson Biography \| World of Criminal Justice
		Reverdy Johnson served as U.S. attorney general from 1849 to 1850 under President Zachary Taylor.
		Johnson also served in the U.S. Senate and as minister to Great Britain but he is best remembered for his constitutional arguments in the Dred Scott case.
		Johnson used his expertise in constitutional law to try to convince the Court that the case was not so much about Scott's freedom but the constitutional right of white Americans to enslave other African Americans.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/reverdy-johnson-cri (615 words)

	Reverdy Johnson
		The American political leader and jurist Reverdy Johnson was born at Annapolis, Maryland, on the 21st of May 1796.
		His father, John Johnson (1770-1824), was a distinguished lawyer, who served in both houses of the Maryland General Assembly, as attorney-general of the state (1806-11), as a judge of the court of appeals (1811-21), and as a chancellor of his state (1821-24).
		In 1817 he removed to Baltimore, where he became the professional associate of Luther Martin, William Pinkney and Roger Brooke Taney; with Thomas Harris he reported the decisions of the court of appeals in Harris and Johnson's Reports (1820-27); and in 1818 he was appointed chief commissioner of insolvent debtors.
	www.nndb.com /people/247/000050097 (467 words)

	American President (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-2.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Reverdy Johnson was born in 1796 in Annapolis, Maryland.
		Johnson continued to practice the law until he was elected to the United States Senate as a Whig in 1844.
		In 1862, Johnson was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat and served until 1868, when he resigned to become the American minister to Great Britain; he held that post until 1869.
	www.americanpresident.org.cob-web.org:8888 /history/zacharytaylor/cabinet/AttorneyGeneral/ReverdyJohnson/h_index.shtml (225 words)

	Avalon Project : History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson - Chapter VIII. Organization Of The Court Argument Of ...
		Johnson was violation of the Office-Tenure Act, which had been passed the year before for the undisguised purpose of restricting the President's power to remove his Cabinet officers, particularly, his War Minister, Mr.
		Johnson holds the office of President, after it was devolved upon him, a part of Mr.
		Johnson for venturing to differ with Congress upon the constitutionality of an act of that body.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/treatise/andrew_johnson/chap_08.htm (5112 words)

	Reverdy Johnson Was Born
		It was a slave-holding state, but some of its leaders, such as attorney and statesman Reverdy Johnson, wanted to remain with the Union and not join the rest of the slave states in forming the Confederacy.
		Born on May 21, 1796, in Annapolis, Maryland, Johnson represented Maryland in the Senate and served as attorney general under President Zachary Taylor.
		Johnson took on several controversial roles because of his state's position.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/marylnd_1 (107 words)

	Articles
		Reverdy Johnson begins his remarks upon the subject by depicting the Southern situation as entirely peaceful.
		Johnson says that there is "a general acknowledgment of the authority of the United States and of the duty of allegiance," he says what is, at the most, formally true.
		Johnson, indeed, was not addressing the Supreme Court, nor the Senate of the United States: he was speaking to a mass-meeting; but he was morally bound to state the case fairly, whatever his constitutional argument might have been, and this he failed to do.
	education.harpweek.com /KKKHearings/Article40.htm (1122 words)

	Reverdy Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Johnson, to the threats of the Republicans and his own fears, had a most baneful influence throughout the Southern States.
		President Johnson was vetoing the bills, and writing his incomparable messages against them, whilst the Maryland Senator was voting for one of them, and urging its adoption by the Southern people.
		Reverdy Johnson is a man of medium height and size, with a blemish in one eye, which disfigures him very much.
	www.adena.com /adena/usa/cw/cw262.htm (582 words)

	Baltimore Neighborhoods: Franklintown - Southwest Planning District
		One of these directors was Reverdy Johnson, later a US Attorney General under President Tyler, and later still an ambassador to England.
		Reverdy Johnson’s "Lyndhurst" Estate was located south of the Franklintown Turnpike about a mile east of Franklin Towne.
		By 1835, the bank had not reopened, and amid rumors of embezzlement, a week of riots ensued, in which Reverdy Johnson’s town house was looted and sacked, and a mob started out to Franklintown and Freeman’s estate with a similar intent.
	www.ci.baltimore.md.us /neighborhoods/southwest/franklintown.html (900 words)

	The Supreme Court Historical Society
		Johnson shared this trait, but tempered it with greater subtlety His brilliance at legal maneuvering won him a leading place at the bar, in lobbying work and in Maryland politics.
		Johnson, Glenn and Perine were his closest contacts in Baltimore, people he supported and who supported him at all crucial junctures.
		Johnson and Perine traveled to Washington to talk to Taney and on Thursday October 3 wrote back to Thomas Ellicott and Evan Poultney that the acting Secretary had acted with his "usual kindness and despatch." These letters, saved by the recipients, are the crucial documents in the crisis.
	www.supremecourthistory.org /04_library/subs_volumes/04_c08_i.html (10738 words)

	AllRefer.com - Reverdy Johnson (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Reverdy Johnson 1796–1876, American lawyer and statesman, b.
		In his second term in the U.S. Senate (1863–68), he supported President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction program, and his opposition to the impeachment of Johnson influenced other senators in voting for the President's acquittal.
		In 1868 he was appointed minister to Great Britain, where he negotiated the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty to settle the Alabama claims; the treaty was rejected by the U.S. Senate largely for party reasons, and Johnson was recalled in 1869.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/JohnsonRe.html (307 words)

	Religious Liberty Archive : Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, Colorado Springs, CO
		The act of the State of Pennsylvania passed in 1851, under which property of Christ Church Hospital, exempted from taxation by the act of 1833, was rendered liable to be taxed, is constitutional, as the privilege conferred by the act of 1833 is one in its nature revocable.
		Reverdy Johnson for the plaintiffs in error, and submitted on a printed argument by Mr.
		Rothgerber Johnson and Lyons LLP attorneys represent a wide variety of religious institutions, and we are available for consultation regarding legal matters for religious institutions.
	www.churchstatelaw.com /cases/christchurchvphilly.asp (772 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Johnson, O to R
		Johnson, Ole — of Langdon, Cavalier County, N.Dak. Democrat.
		Johnson, Rick — of LeRoy, Osceola County, Mich. Republican.
		Johnson, Ruth — of Holly, Oakland County, Mich. Republican.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/johnson7.html (1091 words)

	George Peabody (1795-1869) : July 2005 - Posts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Reverdy Johnson was a Md. state senator during 1821-29, Md.'s U.S. Senator during 1845-49, and U.S. Atty.
		Reverdy Johnson discussed the matter with important Baltimoreans, including John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870), who was the chief planner of the PIB, 1857 (to which GP gave a total of $1.4 million).
		Reverdy Johnson was appointed U.S. Minister to Britain (1868-69) in part to negotiate the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty to settle the Alabama Claims (the U.S. demanded indemnity for British-built Confederate ships, CSS Alabama and others, which cost Union lives and treasure).
	free-blog-site.com /bfparker/archive/2005/07.aspx (16723 words)

	Reverdy Johnson Was Born
		Although he personally opposed slavery, Johnson represented the slave-owning defendant in the 1857 Dred Scot case.
		The court's decision increased antislavery sentiment in the North and fed the fire that sparked the Civil War.
		Despite the state's support of slavery, Reverdy Johnson helped to keep Maryland in the Union during the war.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/marylnd_2 (101 words)

	George Peabody (1795-1869) : March 2005 - Posts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Reverdy Johnson had special responsibility to negotiate the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty to settle the Alabama Claims (U.S. indemnity demands for British-built ships, including the Alabama, sold to Confederate emissaries, which sunk federal ships and cost Union lives and treasure).
		In 1854 Reverdy Johnson was in London with James Watson Webb (1802-84), editor of the NYC Courier and Enquirer during 1827-61.
		Sen. Reverdy Johnson then defended GP as staunchly Union, stating that he had been GP's lawyer in Baltimore in 1817 and had later contacts with him in London.
	free-blog-site.com /bfparker/archive/2005/03.aspx (15455 words)

	Maryland Historical Society Library: Perine Family Papers, 1783-1941, MS 645 - Finding Aid
		Johnson was also implicated in the Bank of Maryland affair, and there are a few of his letters (1835-1836) dealing with the subject, especially the indemnity cases for property damage incurred by Johnson when the mob attacked his house in August 1835.
		The bulk of Johnson's letters were written during the 1840s and 1850s when Johnson was arguing the Mexican claims case for Perine's clients, the Robert Oliver estate Executors, before the Supreme Court.
		Speech of Reverdy Johnson (case of the Trustees of the Bank of Maryland v.
	www.mdhs.org /library/Mss/ms000645.html (2200 words)

	The Winchester Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		William Bowie Johnson, 94, of Moneta, formerly of Annandale, died Wednesday, June 1, 2005, in Oakwood Manor, Bedford.
		Johnson was born Aug. 28, 1911, in Oakland, Md., the son of Charles and Anne Morrison Grant Johnson.
		Surviving are two sons, Andrew P. Johnson of Moneta and William B. Johnson of Crofton, Md.; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
	www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/050604/Obituaries.asp (685 words)

	JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796... - Online Information article about JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796...
		John Johnson (177o–1824), was a distinguished lawyer, who served in both houses of the Maryland See also:
		Macrobius; and one of the most learned among them declared that he had never known a fresh-man of equal attainments.
		Harris he reported the decisions of the court of appeals in Harris and Johnson's Reports (18to–1827); and in 1818 he was appointed See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JEE_JUN/JOHNSON_REVERDY_17961876_.html (1676 words)

	REVERDY JOHNSON Autograph
		Reverdy Johnson was U.S. Senator from Maryland (1845-1849) when he became Taylor's Attorney General.
		A renowned lawyer, Johnson defended Dred Scott before the Supreme Court in 1857.
		Johnson served as U.S. Minister to England, 1868-1869.
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=30368 (306 words)

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		In July 1862, at Secretary Seward's instigation, Senator Reverdy Johnson had gone to New Orleans and had investigated the conflicts with the consuls, reporting his findings to President Lincoln.
		Gerald Capers's statement that Butler's relations with the consuls improved after the Johnson visit is not supported by the fact that multiple protests continued in the correspondence.
		The commander-in-chief had heard similar charges from Senator Reverdy Johnson after he returned from his summer trip to New Orleans.
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