Page "Richard Mentor Johnson" Paragraph 47

Johnson chaired the Committee on Military Affairs during the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses.

Beginning in 1830, there arose a groundswell of public support for Johnson's " pet project " of ending debt imprisonment.

The subject began to appear more frequently in President Jackson's addresses to the legislature.

Johnson chaired a House committee to report on the subject, and delivered the committee's report on January 17, 1832.

Later that year, a bill abolishing the practice of debt imprisonment passed both houses of Congress, and was signed into law on July 14.