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JOHNSON. a, second regiment, of which he became colonel and which he conmianded in General William Henry Harrison's Canadian canipai<;n. At the battle of the Thames, October .5. 1813, according to tradition, he shot and killed Teeuniseh (q.v.). He was not a member of tl>e Thirteenth Congress, but was retunied to the House bj- his constituents in 1814 and served until 1818.' In 1819 he was elected to tlie United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J. Crittenden, and was later reelected, remaining in that body until 1829. In the Senate and in the House, of which he was again a member from 1829 to 1837, he was a strong supporter of Jack- son, who in 1835 designated bim as his personal choice for Vice-President. In the Baltimore Con- vention in Jlay of that year he was placed in nomination, his principal opponent being William C. Kives(q.v, )<if Mrginia. Oppcisiticm to his can- didacy continued throughout tlie campaign, and when the electoral votes were counted it was found that, althougli Van Buren was elected, Virginia by casting her votes for William Smith of Ala- bama had pre^'ented the choice of a Vice-Presi- dent. The election was therefore thrown into the Senate, where Johnson was promptly elected, receiving 33 votes to IG for Francis C?rangcr (q.v.) of New York. Opposition to Johnson having increased, at the Baltimore Convention in May, 1840, after the President had been indorsed and renominated, a resolution was passed declaring "that the Convention deem it expedient at the present time not to choose be- tween the individuals in nomination" for the Vice-Presidency, all of whom, it declared, were worthy of the office. In the Electoral College, however, the Democratic electors voted generally for .Tobnson, giving him 48 votes, L. W. Tazewell of Virginia 11. and .James K. Polk 1. In 1844 Johnson entered into the Democratic canvass for the Presidential nomination, but was defeated. JOHNSON, Richard W. (1827-97). An American soldier, born in Kentucky. He grad- uated at West Point in 1849, and up to the time of the Civil War was employed chiefly on frontier service. In 1861 he was commissioned colonel of the Third Kentucky Cavalrj-. and soon afterwards was made a brigadier-general of vol- unteers. He took part as a cavalry commander in the western campaigns of 1861 and 1862, and on August 21st of the latter year was defeated and captured by Col. John H. Morgan, whom he had been sent to drive out of Tennessee. In the battle of Murfreesboro he commanded a divi- sion. At Chickamauga -his division formed part of the command of General Thomas, and it was one of those which during the battle of Chat- tanooga charged up the heights of Missionary Ridge. The next year he commanded a division in the Army of the Cumberland during the inva- sion of Georgia, and was severelv wnimded at the battle of New Hope Church (May 28, 1864). On August 22d of that year he was made chief of cavalry of the !Military Division of the !Missis- sippi. He commanded a cavalry division at the battle of Nashville, and on the second day was given the brevet rank of major-general of volun- teers, supplemented on Slarch 13. 1865. by the brevet rank of brigadier-general in the Regular Army, and on the same day he was brevctted Tnajor-general in the Regular Army for 'gallant and meritorious ser-ices during the war.' He was mustered out of the volunteer service on January 15, 1806, and became provost marshal- general of the military division of the Tennessee, and later acting judge-advocate in various mili- tary departments. lie resigned in 1867 with the rank of major-general, which, by an act of Con- gress, ^March 3, 1875, was changed to that of brigadier-general. He published .1 Soldier's llcini- niscoicrs in Peace and ^'ar (1866), and a Mem- oir of Mnjor-General George U. Thonum (1881).

JOHNSON, RoHKKT Underwood (1853—). An American poet and editor, born at W'ashington, U. C, Januan- 12. 1853. He joined the staff of the Century Ma'inzinc in 1873 and became asso- ciate editor in 1881. He early became noted for his services in behalf of international copyright, as secretary of the American Copyright League doing much to secure the passage of the law of 1891, for which he was decorated by the French and Italian governments. His writings include nu^^h occasional verse and three volumes: 'J'lie ]yinter Hare and Other Poems (1891). and Songs of Lihcrty and Other Poems (1897). With C. C. 15ucl he edited the well-known Century articles relating to the Civil War afterwards published as Battles and Leaders of the Civil ^Var (1887-88) — one of the most valuable eom- pilations dealing with the subject.

JOHNSON, Ro.ssirER (1840--). An Ameri- can editor and author, born at Rochester, N. Y. He graduated at the University of Rochester in 186.3. from 1864 to 1869 was a'ssistant editor of the Rochester Demoerat, a Republican journal, and in 1869-72 edited the Concord (N. H.) Statesman. In 1873-77 he was an associate edi- tor in the revision of the American Cyclopwdia, in 1878 edited the authorized Life of Farragut, and in 1879-80 aided S. H. Gay in the prepara- tion of the final two volumes of the latter's History of the Cnitcd States (4 vols., 1876-80). He also became editor of the Annual Cyclopo'dia in 1883. and from 1886 to 1888 was managing editor of the Cyclopccdia of American Bioijriiphy. In 1891-94 he was on the editorial staff of the Standftrd Dictionary. Among other compilations edited by him are The British Poets (3 vols., 1876) ; Famous Single and Fugitive Poems ( 1877 ; revised and enlarged ed. 1891) ; Play-day Poems (1878), an anthology of humorous verse in Eng- lish : with C. A. Dana, Fifty Perfect Poems (1882) ; the well-known Little Classics series of prose selections (16 vols., 1874-75: two addition- al vols., 1880; 30th ed. 1892) : and The World's Great Bool^s (1898-1901). His original publica- tions include in fiction. Phaeton Rogers (1881) ; in verse. Idler and Poet (1883), containing "O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers;" and in history, A History of the French War (1882) ; A History of the War Bctuccn the United States and Great Britain (1882); and A History of the War of Secession (1888). He also contrib- uted "The Whispering Gallery" department to the Overland. Monthly, and edited "The Literary Querist" of the Lamp (formerly the Book-Buyer). For six years he was secretary of the New York Authors Club, whose sumptuous and unique J.iher Scriptorum (1893) he prepared with .T. D. Champlin and G. C. Eggleston. He received the degrees of Ph.D. and LL.D. from the Uni- versity of Rochester. JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-841. An English lexicographer, essayist, and critic. He was born at Lichfield. September 18. 1709. the son of Michael Johnson, a bookseller. He was sent to