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Johnson, Reverdy

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Johnson, Reverdy (1796-1876)

US lawyer and public official. He sat in the US Senate (Whig, Maryland) 1845-49 and was briefly attorney general. A pro-Union Democrat during the US Civil War, he returned to the Senate from 1863 to 1867. He defended Mary Surratt and others against charges of complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln and worked to save President Johnson from impeachment. He was US ambassador to Britain 1868-69, negotiating several important agreements.

Born in Annapolis, Maryland, he graduated from St John's College in 1811, and was admitted to the bar in 1816. He became a nationally prominent authority on constitutional law. He successfully argued in the Dred Scott case of 1857 that as a slave Scott could not be a citizen and therefore had no legal standing.



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