Richard Mentor Johnson (October 17, 1780 – November 19, 1850) was a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren.

He was innate at "Beargrass", Jefferson County, Kentucky, near the present places of Louisville, and attended Transylvania University. He was admitted to the bar within 1802, and was the member of the state Home of Representatives from either 1804-1806 and agawithin in 1819. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Tenth and to the 5 succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 4, 1819). He was chairpersin of a Committee in Claims & the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War.

Johnson was licenced a Colonel of Kentucky Volunteers & commanded the regiment within engagements against the British in Lower Canada in 1813. He was credited by a bit of sustaining personally killing a Shawnee leader Tecumseh during the Battle of the Thames; despite the doubtful accuracy of this claim, Johnson would late let it run to dependable burden within his political career. He was elected to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy from either the resignation of John J. Crittenden, and was reelected and served from December 10, 1819 to March 3, 1829. He was an abortive candidate for reelection within 1829.

He was elected to the 21st Congress and to the three future Congresses (March 4, 1829–March 4, 1837) He was chairman of a Committee in Post Professional & Post Roads & the Committee in Military Affairs. He wwhen selected as Martin Van Buren's Vice President by the Senate in February 8, 1837, after losing a trend lines of a bit of of his Presidential electors due to his relationship with an African-American woman. He served when Vice President from either March 4, 1837, to March 4, 1841.

Johnson was the member of the state Home of Representatives around 1850, however he died around Frankfort, Kentucky soon after ingesting his seat. He is interred in the Frankfort Cemetery.

His brothers James and John Telemachus and his nephew Robert Ward Johnson were all members of the Home of Representatives, &, in the pack of Robert Ward, the Senator also.

Johnson, never married, experienced an extended-semipermanent relationship by using Julia Chinn, a personal slave. Together, it experienced 2 girl, Adaline Chinn Johnson & Imogene Chinn Johnson.

Known as for Johnson come counties in Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Nebraska.