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In that same election no candidate for Vice President secured a majority in the electoral college as Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Richard Mentor Johnson did not receive the electoral votes of Democratic electors from Virginia, because of his relationship with a former slave.
During the campaign, Martin Van Buren's running mate Richard Mentor Johnson was accused of having lived with a black woman.
" Martin Van Buren was nominated for vice-president on the first ballot, receiving 208 votes to 49 for Philip Pendleton Barbour and 26 for Richard Mentor Johnson.
Although Southerners disliked the New Yorker Van Buren as well as his intended running mate, Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky, Van Buren secured the nomination at a meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, at the 1835 Democratic National Convention.
Richard Mentor Johnson ( October 17, 1780 or 1781 – November 19, 1850 ) was the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren ( 1837 – 1841 ).
Richard Mentor Johnson was born on October 17, 1780, the fifth of Robert and Jemima ( Suggett ) Johnson's eleven children.
One of the enemy's flaming arrows landed in the crib of the infant, Richard Mentor Johnson, but it was quickly doused by Johnson's sister Betsy.
: " Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th Vice President ( 1837 – 1841 )", Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789 – 1993 ( PDF ), Washington, D. C .: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1997: pp. 121 – 131.
" Johnson, Richard Mentor ", in John E. Kleber, ed: The Kentucky Encyclopedia, Associate editors: Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
* Keven McQueen, " Richard Mentor Johnson: Vice President ", in Offbeat Kentuckians: Legends to Lunatics, Ill. by Kyle McQueen, Kuttawa, Kentucky: McClanahan Publishing House.
" Johnson, Richard Mentor ", Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774 – 1989.
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