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Andrew Johnson: U.S. Senate
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[C]losely he identified with his fellow Southerners' views on slavery, Johnson disagreed strongly with their calls to break up the Union over the issue. When Tennessee left the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln, Johnson broke with his home state, becoming the only Southern senator to retain his seat in the U.S. Senate. In the South, Johnson was deemed a traitor; his property was confiscated and his wife and two daughters were driven from the state. In the North... Johnson's stand made him an overnight hero.
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In 1843, Johnson became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the U.S. Congress, where he served until 1853. In Congress he was a champion of the poor. He fought for a homestead law that would make free grants of public lands to settlers who farmed the land. He succeeded in getting a homestead bill passed by the House, but the bill was not passed by the upper chamber, the U.S. Senate.
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The film at the visitor's center explains the impeachment process, and tells you how President Johnson was impeached by the U.S. House but not removed from office by the U.S. Senate (much like another president named Bill Clinton). After you have seen the film, a member of the staff of the visitor's center will give you a replica of the ticket Congress used way back then. You can then go over to the museum section and vote on whether you think Johnson should have been removed from office or not.
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Johnson was not nominated to run for re-election in 1868. He returned to Tennessee where he successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1874. He gave his last speech on the Senate floor in March 1875 and died of a stroke in Tennessee shortly thereafter.
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