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What was so unusual about the election of Richard M Johnson as vice president under Van Buren?
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Richard Johnson was the only vice president to be elected by the United States Senate. He was one vote away from having the majority electoral vote, so the Senate was responsible for voting him in.
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∙ 9y agoThe reason Richard M. Johnson was given the Vice Presidency was because he was elected by the United States Senate. He was the only Vice President to be elected using a separate Electoral vote than that of the Presidential candidate according to the provisions of the 12th Amendment.
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∙ 9y agoHis running mate in 1836, Richard Johnson, was not picked by Van Buren, but by Andrew Jackson who was the President. By 1840, Johnson had taken a slave girl for his common-law wife and had children by her, whom he raised as free. This made him quite unpopular in the South, so much so that the Deocratic convention did not nominate anyone for vice-president in 1840. Johnson was left as a sort of defacto running mate for Van Buren, but since Van Buren lost, no one had to think about the vice-president.
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