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Reverdy Johnson (May 21, 1796 – February 10, 1876) was an American politician, statesman, and jurist from Annapolis, Maryland. He gained fame as a defense attorney, defending notables such as Sandford of the Dred Scott case , Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter at his courts-martial, and Mary Surratt , alleged conspirator in the ...
18 de mar. de 2024 · Reverdy Johnson (born May 21, 1796, Annapolis, Md., U.S.—died Feb. 10, 1876, Annapolis) was a constitutional lawyer, U.S. senator from Maryland (1845–49, 1863–68), attorney general under President Zachary Taylor (1849–50), and minister to Great Britain (1868–69).
24 de oct. de 2022 · Johnson, Reverdy. 21st Attorney General, 1849 - 1850. Download Image. Reverdy Johnson was born in Annapolis, Maryland, on May 21, 1796. He was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis, graduating in 1811, read law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1815.
29 de may. de 2018 · Reverdy Johnson was a U.S. attorney general, senator, and constitutional lawyer who argued the Dred Scott case before the Supreme Court. He supported the Union during the Civil War and the Radical Republicans' Reconstruction policy, and later defended southerners accused of disloyalty.
Steiner. Reverdy Johnson 651 The Life of Reverdy Johnson. By BERNARD C. STEINER, Ph.D., LL.B. (Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company. I9I4. Pp. V, 284.) REVERDY JOHNSON was a distinguished American lawyer (1796-i876). He was descended from an ancestry of lawyers. He followed William Wirt at the Maryland bar, and took rank with these ...
Reverdy Johnson. On May 21, 1796, attorney and statesman Reverdy Johnson was born in Annapolis, Maryland. Johnson represented Maryland, a slaveholding state south of the Mason-Dixon line, as a Whig, in the U.S. Senate from 1845-49 and again following the Civil War as a Democrat from 1863-68.
Reverdy Johnson (1849–1850) Reverdy Johnson was born in 1796 in Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated from St. John's College (Annapolis) in 1811, studied the law, was admitted to the state bar in 1816, and became a noted lawyer in Baltimore.
