Title: Today in history
Description: Presents information on Reverdy Johnson, attorney and statesman born on May 21, 1976. Johnson represented Maryland in the United States Senate from 1845-1949 and again from 1863-1868. Under President Zachary Taylor, he served as attorney general. Johnson represented the slave owning defendant in the 1857 Dred Scott case.
Subjects: Legislators, Biography, Attorneys general, Trials, litigation, United States. Congress. Senate, United States
Places: United States
People: Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876), Dred Scott (1809-1858)