Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson (December                     Andrew Johnson
29, 1808 - July 31, 1875)
was the 17th (1865-1869)
President of the United
States. He became President Order:           17th President
when Abraham Lincoln was    Term of Office:  April 15, 1865 - March 4, 1869
assassinated. Johnson       Followed:        Abraham Lincoln
presided over the
Reconstruction of the       Succeeded by:    Ulysses S. Grant
United States following the Date of Birth    December 29, 1808
American Civil War.         Place of Birth:  Raleigh, North Carolina
Johnson's conciliatory      Date of Death:   July 31, 1875
policies towards the        Place of Death:  Carter's Station, Tennessee
defeated rebels and his
vetoes of civil rights      Wife:            Eliza McCardle
bills embroiled him in a    First Ladies:    Eliza McCardle
bitter dispute with the                      Martha Patterson (daughter)
radical faction of          Occupation:      tailor
Congress, leading the House
of Representatives to       Political Party: Democrat
impeach him in 1868,
becoming the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently acquitted 
by a single vote in the Senate.

Johnson was a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee and a Vice
President and 17th President of the United States. He was born in Raleigh,
North Carolina on December 29, 1808. He was self-educated. At the age of 13
he was apprenticed to a tailor. He moved to Tennessee in 1826, where he
continued his employment as a tailor. He served as an alderman in
Greeneville, Tennessee from 1828 to 1830, and mayor of Greeneville from 1834
to 1838. He was a member of the State house of representatives from 1835 to
1837 and 1839 to 1841. He was elected to the State senate in 1841, and
elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the four succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1853. He was chairman of the Committee
on Public Expenditures (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses).

Johnson did not seek renomination, having become a gubernatorial candidate.
He was Governor of Tennessee from 1853 to 1857, and was elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate and served from October 8, 1857 to
March 4, 1862, when he resigned. He was chairman of the Committee to Audit
and Control the Contingent Expense (Thirty-sixth Congress). Johnson was
appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Military Governor of Tennessee in
1862. He was elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican
ticket headed by Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and was inaugurated March 4, 1865.
He became President of the United States on April 15, 1865, upon the death
of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first Vice President to succeed to the U.S.
Presidency upon the assassination of a President and the third to succeed
upon the death of a President.

Wide differences arising between the President and the Congress, a
resolution for his impeachment passed the House of Representatives February
24, 1868. On March 5, 1868 a court of impeachment was organized in the
United States Senate to hear charges against the President. Eleven articles
were set out in the resolution and the trial before the Senate lasted three
months, at the conclusion of which he was acquitted (May 16, 1868) by a vote
of thirty-five for conviction to nineteen for acquittal, the necessary
two-thirds vote for impeachment not having been obtained. He retired to his
home in Tennessee upon the expiration of the presidential term on March 4,
1869. Johnson was the first President to be impeached. Bill Clinton was the
second President to be impeached.

Johnson was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States
Senate in 1869 and to the House of Representatives in 1872. He was elected
as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875,
until his death near Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee, July 31, 1875.
Internment was in the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Greeneville, Greene
County, Tennessee.

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