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The nation s ninth vice president had an enslaved wife Ronald G. Shafer, The Washington Post Feb. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3Richard Mentor Johnson became vice president in 1837.Library of CongressShow MoreShow Less 2of3This political cartoon was a racist attack on Richard Mentor Johnson because of his relationship with Julia Chinn.Library of CongressShow MoreShow Less 3of3 She was born enslaved and remained that way her entire life, even after she became Richard Mentor Johnson s bride. Johnson, a Kentucky congressman who eventually became the nation s ninth vice president in 1837, couldn t legally marry Julia Chinn. Instead the couple exchanged vows at a local church with a wedding celebration organized by the enslaved people at his family s plantation in Great Crossing, according to Miriam Biskin, who wrote about Chinn decades ago. ....
Skip to main content Currently Reading This impeached, one-term president refused to go to his successor s inauguration. Now Trump will do the same. Ronald G. Shafer, The Washington Post Jan. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The peeved president decided to skip his successor s inauguration ceremony. The year was 1869, and the president was Andrew Johnson, who detested incoming President Ulysses S. Grant. The feeling was mutual. Grant refused to ride in the same carriage with Johnson to the Capitol. Now the country faces a much uglier transfer of power between President Donald Trump, who maintains the election was stolen from him, and Joe Biden. On Thursday night, as calls grew for his removal from office in the wake of a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, Trump finally acknowledged there will be a new president on Jan. 20 and pledged a smooth, orderly, seamless transition of power. ....