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(Tuesday, October 17, 1780) — Richard Mentor Johnson, the ninth vice president of the United States, who served during the administration of President Martin Van Buren (1837–1841), was born today on the settlement of “Beargrass” in the Kentucky frontier and what became present-day Louisville.