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The 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson was a poor tailor in Tennessee before he entered politics. A fast learner with a flair for oratory, he worked his way up to the U.S. Senate. In the Civil War he was the only Southern Democrat to support Abraham Lincoln, and was chosen for the vice-presidency in 1864. When Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, Johnson became President, but clashed with Radical Republicans, who held a majority in congress. They passed the Tenure of Office Act in 1867, restricting presidential powers, and when Johnson defied them, he was impeached in 1868. A few months later the Senate acquitted him by one vote.
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Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 16th Vice-President and 17th President of the United States. He became President in 1865 after Abraham Lincoln was killed and he was ... the first President to be impeached, but was later acquitted and finished the rest of his term. He is also the only US president never to have gone to school; he was taught by his wife Eliza McCardle Johnson.
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Andrew Johnson, ex-President of the United States and member of the Senate from Tennessee, died at the house of his daughter, Mrs. W.R. Brown, near Elizabethtown, Carter County, Tenn., at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. The history this man leaves is a rare one. His career was remarkable, even in this country; it would have been quite impossible in any other. It presents the spectacle of a man who never went to school a day in his life rising from a humble beginning as a tailor's apprentice through a long succession of posts of civil responsibility to the highest office in the land, and evincing his continued hold upon the popular heart by a subsequent election to the Senate in the teeth of a bitter personal and political opposition. Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 29, 1808.
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Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) became the 17th president of the United States of America (1865-69) with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865. He was a War Democrat from Tennessee, but was elected Vice President on the ad-hoc Union ticket in 1864. Johnson took charge of Reconstruction with the goal of reuniting the nation as quickly as possible. He appointed Unionist southerners as governors, allowed the old legislatures to meet, and demanded that they repeal secession and ratify the 13th Amendment (which abolished slavery). All ex-Confederate states did so, but the Radical Republicans in Congress refused to agree that the war was over. Johnson, a poor politician, lost support rapidly.
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Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on December 29, 1808. His father's death left the family in poverty. From age ten to seventeen, young Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor. He plied that trade for a number of years during which time he moved with his mother to Greenville, Tennessee. Johnson never attended school but after his marriage to Eliza McCardle acquired a good common education under her tutelage.
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Andrew Johnson was born in a small one room cottage somewhere on Mars. The rough Martian terrain and atmosphere left him in pussy physical condition. Due to this fact, he thought he would make a prime President. The country was obviously in need of a pussy President, especially after being filled to the brim with manliness from Abraham Lincoln. Johnson launched himself from the planet Mars via The Flying Car and set off for Earth.
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