Andrew Johnson

1808 - 1875  (66 years)

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• Name	Andrew Johnson  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]
  Birth	29 Dec 1808	Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]
  	17Th President
  Gender	Male
  Burial	1875	Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA   [4, 11, 14]
  	Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, 121 Monument Ave.
  Death	31 Jul 1875	Tennessee, USA   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14]
  	Carter's Sta.,
  Age	66 years
  Person ID	I1450	A Demo Tree
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2023

  
  

  Father	Jacob Johnson           b. 7 Apr 1778, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, USA           d. 4 Jan 1812, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, USA (Age 33 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Polly McDonough           b. 17 Jul 1782, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA           d. 13 Feb 1856, Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	9 Sep 1801	Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, USA   [1, 18]
  Family ID	F748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eliza McCardle           b. 4 Oct 1810, Telford, Washington, Tennessee, USA           d. 15 Jan 1876, Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	17 May 1827	Warrensburg, Greene, Tennessee, USA   [3]
  Children	3 sons and 3 daughters
  + 1. Martha Johnson           b. 25 Oct 1828, Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA           d. 10 Jul 1901, Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Charles Johnson           b. 19 Feb 1830, Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA           d. 4 Apr 1863, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 33 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 3. Mary Johnson           b. 8 May 1832, Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA           d. 19 Apr 1883, Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Robert Johnson           b. 22 Feb 1834, Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA           d. 22 Apr 1869, Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA (Age 35 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Rosa L Johnson           b. 2 Dec 1851             d. 31 Oct 1931 (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Andrew Franklin Johnson           b. 5 Aug 1852, Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, USA           d. 12 Mar 1879, Elizabethton, Carter, Tennessee, USA (Age 26 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F747	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Was never elected; became president upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Was in office 1865-1869. Is the only man in american history to attain all 4 kinds of public office - legislative, judicial, military, and executive - and was both Vice-President and President, yet he had no formal schooling. He was a tailor by trade, and his wife taught him to read and write. Only president to be impeached, but acquitted. 17th President of the United States. Born near Raleigh, North Carolina to Mary 'Polly' McDonough, a laundress and seamstress, and Jacob Johnson a hotel porter. His father died when he was about three years old. As a boy, he was apprenticed to a tailor. In 1826, he moved to Greenville Tennessee, and went into business as a tailor. In 1829, he was elected alderman for Greeneville. He was elected mayor of Greeneville in 1834, and the following year he was sent to the Tennessee state legislature. In 1843, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives where he advocated what would become the Homestead Act. In 1853, he left the House of Representatives to become governor of Tennessee, but left the governorship in 1857 to take a seat in the U.S. Senate where he advocated the preservation of the Union. In June 1861, Tennessee voters approved secession from the Union, Johnson had been traveling across his state speaking out against secession, and was the only senator from the South to remain loyal to the Union after his state seceded. He gave up his seat in the Senate in 1862 when President Lincoln appointed him Tennessee’s military governor. In 1864, the president chose him as his running mate over the incumbent vice president. As a Southerner and a They were sworn into office on 4 March 1865. When the president was assassinated some five weeks later, Johnson was sworn in as president. Despite an initial appearance of vindictiveness, he soon dropped punitive actions against Confederates in his Reconstruction policy, and leaned far more toward conciliation. In May 1865, he recognized a Reconstruction government in Virginia and issued a proclamation of amnesty which restored full citizenship to many former Confederates if they would swear allegiance to the Union. Congress, however, found the president far too conciliatory, and moved to refuse a seat to any Senator or Representative from the pre-war South. In April 1866, a Civil Rights Act, which was designed to nullify the Black Codes imposed in the former Confederacy by guaranteeing equal civil rights to blacks, was passed over Johnson’s veto. In February 1868, the president notified Congress that he had removed Edwin Stanton as Secretary of War, the fallout for which were impeachment proceedings against the president. During May 1868, there were three votes in the Senate, on all three occasions, thirty-five Senators voted guilty and nineteen voted not guilty, and as the Constitution requires a two-thirds majority for conviction in impeachment trials, he was acquitted. He would issued a general clemency for all former Confederates that same year. By the end of his term in office, the Republicans had nominated U. S. Grant as their presidential candidate and the Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour as their candidate, and Johnson was out of the running. He ran instead an unsuccessful bid for election to the Senate, and was again unsuccessful in an 1872 run for the House of Representatives. In 1874, however, he was elected to the Senate and served from 4 March 1875 until his death in July that same year. He is the only President to have served in the Senate following his presidency. Bio by: Iola

  
  

• Reference

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