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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MarylandReverdy JOHNSON
(1796-1876)
Senate Years of Service:
1845-1849; 1863-1865; 1865-1868Party: Whig; Unionist;
DemocratJOHNSON, 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.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American
Law; Steiner, Bernard. Life of Reverdy Johnson. 1914.
Reprint. New York: Russell & Russell, 1970.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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