Andrew Johnson

President of the United States from 1865 to 1869 · United States · Politicians · Lived 1808 to 1875 · aged 66

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The only president impeached for trying to undo Reconstruction. Andrew Johnson inherited Lincoln's office in 1865 and spent four years pardoning Confederates, blocking rights for freed slaves, and warring with Congress until the House charged him - he survived removal by a single Senate vote.

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1875Died31 July 1875United States senatorOffice1865“I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day; yes, I'm a-goin for to tell you all, that I'm a plebian! I glory in it; I am a plebian!”In their words5 March 1865First address as Vice-President, widely reported as having been delivered while he was inebriated. (5 March 1865).Read the whole statement

“This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality.”In their wordsTo Union soldiers (1865), as quoted in Andrew Johnson: A Profile (1969), "Johnson and the Negro", by Lawanda Cox and John H. Cox; edited byRead the whole statement

President of the United StatesOffice1865-1869Vice President of the United StatesOffice1863“I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is.”In their words26 February 1863Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana (26 February 1863).Read the whole statement

1862Governor of TennesseeOffice1862-18651857United States senatorOffice1857-18621853“There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves.”In their wordsStatement (1853) as quoted in Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot (1928) by Robert Watson Winston.Read the whole statement

1843United States representativeOffice1843-18531835“There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.”In their wordsStatement (1835), as quoted in Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot (1928) by Robert Watson Winston.Read the whole statement

1808Born29 December 1808

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I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day; yes, I'm a-goin for to tell you all, that I'm a plebian! I glory in it; I am a plebian!
Mar 5, 1865, First address as Vice-President, widely reported as having been delivered while he was inebriated. (5 March 1865)., Own words
This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality.
1865, To Union soldiers (1865), as quoted in Andrew Johnson: A Profile (1969), "Johnson and the Negro", by Lawanda Cox and John H. Cox; edited by, Own words
I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is.
Feb 26, 1863, Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana (26 February 1863)., Own words

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Born into poverty in 1808, never saw the inside of a school, apprenticed as a tailor. Worked his way from alderman in Greeneville, Tennessee, through the state legislature to Congress in 1843, then governor, then U.S. senator by 1857. When Tennessee seceded in 1861 he alone among Southern senators refused to resign his seat, a defiant Unionist. Lincoln made him military governor of occupied Tennessee in 1862 and chose him as running mate in 1864 to signal reconciliation. Four months into the vice presidency Lincoln was shot and Johnson stepped into the wreckage. He moved fast to restore the Southern states without protecting the freedmen, pardoned ex-Confederates in waves, vetoed civil rights bills, opposed the Fourteenth Amendment. Congress overrode him again and again. In 1867 he tried to fire his war secretary in violation of the Tenure of Office Act; the House impeached him in 1868 and the Senate acquitted by one vote. Left office in 1869, returned to Tennessee, won a Senate seat in 1875 - the only former president to do so - and died five months later. Historians rank him among the worst.

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