Richard M. Johnson was the only vice president ever elected by the U.S. Senate under Amendment 12. He was also U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky. His political career began and ended in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, he allied with fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay as a member of the War hawks, those who supported having a war with Great Britain.
Commissioned as a colonel in the Kentucky Militia, he commanded a regiment of mounted volunteers from 1812-1813. He and his brother James served with General William Henry Harrison in the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada and some reports had him killing the famed Shawnee Chief Tecumseh at this battle which he later used to his political advantage.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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