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About Reverdy Johnson
Reverdy Johnson was an American politician, statesman, and jurist from Annapolis, Maryland. He gained fame as a defense attorney, defending notables such as Sandford of the Dred Scott case, Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter at his courts-martial, and Mary Surratt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. A former Whig, he was a strong supporter of the Union war effort. At first he opposed wartime efforts to abolish slavery until 1864, and in 1865 supported the 13th Amendment banning slavery.
Everything about Reverdy Johnson →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, diplomat, jurist
- Position held
- United States Attorney General, member of the Maryland House of Delegates, ambassador, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 21, 1796
- Died
- February 10, 1876