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Andrew
Johnson- 17th President
Party: Democrat
Term: April 15, 1865 - March 3, 1869
Age at Inauguration: 56
Life Span: Dec 29, 1808 - July 31, 1875 [66]
Spouse: Eliza McCardle - Age at Marriage:
18
Vice President: None |
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- One of two presidents who was an indentured
servant - Millard Fillmore - Johnson
worked as an apprentice tailor
- He opened a small tailor shop in Tennessee
where he and Eliza lived and worked
- The Johnson's were so poor he had
to borrow money to move his wife and family to the capital when
he became president
- Lincoln dropped Hannibal Hamlin from
the re-election ticket in 1864, and chose Johnson, a democrat,
in an attempt to appease Southern voters Vice
President Andrew Johnson
- Johnson became president upon the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 Presidential
Assassinations
- Once in office, Johnson fired Edwin
Stanton, Secretary of War, in direct violation of the Tenure
of Office Act
- The Act forbade the president from
removing a member of the cabinet without the consent of the Senate
- Johnson was impeached by the House
of Representatives on three separate counts after he refused
to reinstate Stanton
- The President was acquitted in the
Senate by a one-vote margin on each respective charge
- After losing re-election he returned
to Tennessee, and in 1875 was elected to the United States Senate;
the same body that voted on his impeachment charges years earlier
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