Andrew Johnson

Birth Date

1808-12-29

Death Date

1875-07-31

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Sixteenth Vice President and seventeenth President of the United States. Raleigh, North Carolina, native. Married to Eliza McCardle Johnson in 1827. Father of Martha Johnson Patterson, Charles Johnson, Mary Johnson Stover, Robert Johnson, and Andrew Johnson, Jr. Tailor in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Green County, Tennessee. Member of the Democratic Party. Elected as alderman of Green County, Tennessee in 1829. Elected mayor of Greeneville in Green County in 1834. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee from Greene County from 1835 to 1837. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee from Washington County from 1839 to 1841. Democratic presidential elector from Tennessee in 1840. Member of the Senate of the State of Tennessee from 1841 to 1843. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the 1st District of Tennessee from 1843 to 1853. Governor of the State of Tennessee from 1853 to 1857. Member of the Senate of the United States from Tennessee from 1857 to 1862. Military governor of Tennessee, with the rank of brigadier general, from 1862 to 1865. National Union Party Vice President of the United States from March 4, 1865 to April 14, 1865. President of the United States from April 15,1865 to March 4, 1869, following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, National Park Service, “Andrew Johnson Timeline,” https://www.nps.gov/anjo/learn/historyculture/timeline.htm, accessed on October 24, 2016.
Hans L. Trefousse, Andrew Johnson: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989).

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