Editing Richard Mentor Johnson (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Flickr - USCapitol - Death of Tecumseh.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|Johnson (center right) killing Tecumseh, from the frieze of the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol]]
Counties in four U.S. states are named for Johnson, namely in [[Johnson County, Illinois|Illinois]], [[Johnson County, Kentucky|Kentucky]],<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ | title=The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 1 | publisher=Kentucky State Historical Society | year=1903 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ/page/n35 35]}}</ref> [[Johnson County, Missouri|Missouri]], and [[Johnson County, Nebraska|Nebraska]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Blevins|first=Danny K.|title=Van Lear|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3lwJQBTCElgC&pg=PA11|date=February 20, 2008|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-3534-6|page=11}}</ref> Richard Mentor Johnson is also the namesake of [[Dick Johnson Township, Clay County, Indiana|Dick Johnson Township, Indiana]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1VLWAAAAMAAJ | title=Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana: Historical and Biographical | publisher=F.A. Battey & Company | author=Blanchard, Charles | year=1884 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1VLWAAAAMAAJ/page/n78 83]}}</ref>

His political prominence led to a family dynasty: his brothers James and [[John Telemachus Johnson]], and his nephew [[Robert Ward Johnson]] were all elected to the House of Representatives, the first two from Kentucky, and Robert from Arkansas. Robert was later elected as a senator before the Civil War.<ref name=bioguide>{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000170|title=JOHNSON, Richard Mentor – Biographical Information|website=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref>