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Johnson, Andrew: Abraham Lincoln
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Andrew Johnson was a man with whom nearly every American can relate, from the poorest to the wealthiest. With unyielding determination, he rose from dire circumstances to the nation's most prestigious office without having attended a single day of school. Andrew Johnson was a Democrat; Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. For the first time in 1864, the National Union Party existed as a structured, nationwide party for the Lincoln and Johnsonticket. It was an attempt to unify Republicans and pro-war Democrats.
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After one term as Governor, Andrew Johnson made a bid for the U.S. Senate and handily won the election in 1857. Senator Andrew Johnson began seeing the division in America and fought against secession in the South and, especially, Tennessee. While Johnson opposed rich southern planters, he was a slave owner himself and, like the Republican candidate Lincoln, refused to make it a national issue in the National Democratic Convention in Charleston of 1860. During the Convention, Johnson was nominated for President, but dropped his bid to support the Breckenridge ticket.
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Andrew Johnson is largely viewed as the worst possible person to have been President at the end of the Civil War. He utterly failed to make a satisfying and just peace because of his racist views, his gross incompetence in federal office, and his incredible miscalculation of public support for his policies. One can only sadly speculate about how different America would have been had Lincoln lived to see the country through the critical period of Reconstruction. In the end, Johnson did more to extend the period of national strife than to heal the wounds of war.
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President Lincoln made Andrew Johnson Military Governor of Tennessee. He went South determined to hold, by the hand of authority, what had been gained by the hand of war. He did not mince words with his enemies, but threatened to send them to prison or to hang them. When the Mayor and Council of Nashville refused to take the oath of allegiance he locked them up in the city jail.
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