George Mortimer Bibb was an American lawyer and politician and the seventeenth United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and twice represented Kent
A Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Bibb as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Richard Mentor Johnson was an American lawyer, military officer and politician who served as the ninth vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841 under President Martin Van Buren. He is the
Portrait c. 1843
The women of Bryan's Station draw water while the enemy looks on
"An affecting scene in Kentucky," a racist cartoon by Henry R. Robinson mocking Johnson's mixed-race family and political allies, 1836
Nathaniel Currier's lithograph (c. 1846) is one of many images that portrayed Johnson as Tecumseh's killer.