Richard Johnson was born in Virginia, but his family moved to Kentucky when he was very young.. This still being frontier, he received no formal education until he was 15 and entered Transylvania University in Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in 1802, at age 22.
When his father died, he inherited an octoroon slave named Julia Chinn who became essentially his common-law wife.
In 1804, he entered politics and was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives, even though he was just 23 (Kentucky law had minimum age at 24), but he was so popular, his age was overlooked. In 1806, he was elected as a Democrat-Republican to the U,S, House of Representatives. This, even though he had not yet attained the minimum age 25 (but he was that old when he took his seat).
Age Is Just a Numbers Thing for Richard. --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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