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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Personal name headingJohnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
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Variant(s)Johnson, President, 1808-1875
See alsoTennessee. Governor (1853-1857 : Johnson)
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Tennessee. Military Governor (1862-1865 : Johnson)
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United States. President (1865-1869 : Johnson)
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Spouse: Johnson, Eliza McCardle, 1810-1876
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Other standard no.42929422
Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeGreeneville (Tenn.)
Birth date1808-12-29
Death date1875-07-31
Place of birthRaleigh (N.C.)
Place of deathElizabethton (Tenn.)
AffiliationUnited States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Congress. Senate
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationPresidents
Vice-presidents
Legislators
Governors
Special noteOld catalog hdg.: Johnson, Andrew, Pres. U.S., 1808-1875
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Found inUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections Library. J.G.M. Ramsey family papers, 1790-1869 (President Johnson; will be the best friend the South has)
Lossing, B. J. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America, 1868: p. 37 (prominent East Tenn. Loyalist; suffered persecution; member of Congress)
Wikipedia, Mar. 28, 2013 (Andrew Johnson; b. Dec. 29, 1808, Raleigh, N.C., d. July 31, 1875, near Elizabethton, Tenn.)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website, viewed September 27, 2016 (Johnson, Andrew, (father-in-law of David Trotter Patterson), a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee and a Vice President and 17th President of the United States; born in Raleigh, N.C., on December 29, 1808; self-educated; at the age of 13 was apprenticed to a tailor; moved to Tennessee in 1826; employed as a tailor; alderman of Greeneville, Tenn., 1828-1830; mayor of Greeneville 1834-1838; member, State house of representatives 1835-1837, 1839-1841; elected to the State senate in 1841; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses); did not seek renomination, having become a gubernatorial candidate; Governor of Tennessee 1853-1857; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from October 8, 1857, to March 4, 1862, when he resigned; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Thirty-sixth Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-sixth Congress); appointed by President Abraham Lincoln Military Governor of Tennessee in 1862; elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and was inaugurated on March 4, 1865; became President of the United States on April 15, 1865, upon the death of Abraham Lincoln; wide differences arising between the President and the Congress, a resolution for his impeachment passed the House of Representatives on February 24, 1868; 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 26, 1868) by a vote of thirty-five for conviction to nineteen for acquittal, the necessary two-thirds vote for impeachment not having been obtained; retired to his home in Tennessee upon the expiration of the presidential term, March 3, 1869; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1869 and to the House of Representatives in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, until his death near Elizabethton, Carter County, Tenn., July 31, 1875; interment in the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Greeneville, Greene County, Tenn.)
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