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{| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="250" style="margin-left:5px"{President|alignimage="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:Richard johnson.jpg|150px]]office=vice|-seq=9!colspan|term_start="2" alignMarch 4, 1837|term_end="center" styleMarch 4, 1841|party="color: black; height: 30px; background: maroon no-repeat scroll top left;"Democratic|Richard M. Johnson; pres=Martin Van BurenNinth Vice President of the United States |pres_dates=|-previous=Martin Van Buren|Bornnext=John Tyler|birth_date=October 17, 1780|-|Diedbirth_place=Beargrass, Kentucky|death_date=November 19, 1850(aged 70)|-death_place=Frankfort, Kentucky|Termspouse=|1837-1841spouse2=|-religion=Baptist|}}

'''Richard M. Johnson''' (1780- 1850) was vice president [[Vice President of the United States of America|Vice President]] of the United States from 1837 to 1841. He served under [[Martin Van Buren]]. In 1806, he represented [[Kentucky]] in the House, but left to fight in the [[War of 1812]]. He claimed to have killed the indian Indian chief, [[Tecumseh, ]] at the battle [[Battle of Thames ]] in 1813. This caused , engendering the slogan "Rumphsey Rumpsey Dumpsey, Colonal Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh." He returned to the [[House of Representitives Representatives]] and later on in 1819 was appointed to his seat in the [[United States Senate where he served for ten terms|Senate]]. The He enjoyed a largely unremarkable term in as the Vice President. He was the first of the Three three Vice Presidents named Johnson (the other two are [[Andrew Johnson]], and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].) <ref> [[Fandex]], Workman Publishing, 2002. </ref>

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