Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
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found: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections Library. J.G.M. Ramsey family papers, 1790-1869(President Johnson; will be the best friend the South has)
found: Lossing, B. J. Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America, 1868:p. 37 (prominent East Tenn. Loyalist; suffered persecution; member of Congress)
found: Wikipedia, Mar. 28, 2013(Andrew Johnson; b. Dec. 29, 1808, Raleigh, N.C., d. July 31, 1875, near Elizabethton, Tenn.)
found: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website, viewed September 27, 2016(Johnson, Andrew, (father-in-law of David Trotter Patterson), a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee and a Vice President and 17th President of the United States; born in Raleigh, N.C., on December 29, 1808; self-educated; at the age of 13 was apprenticed to a tailor; moved to Tennessee in 1826; employed as a tailor; alderman of Greeneville, Tenn., 1828-1830; mayor of Greeneville 1834-1838; member, State house of representatives 1835-1837, 1839-1841; elected to the State senate in 1841; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses); did not seek renomination, having become a gubernatorial candidate; Governor of Tennessee 1853-1857; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from October 8, 1857, to March 4, 1862, when he resigned; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Thirty-sixth Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-sixth Congress); appointed by President Abraham Lincoln Military Governor of Tennessee in 1862; elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and was inaugurated on March 4, 1865; became President of the United States on April 15, 1865, upon the death of Abraham Lincoln; wide differences arising between the President and the Congress, a resolution for his impeachment passed the House of Representatives on February 24, 1868; eleven articles were set out in the resolution and the trial before the Senate lasted three months, at the conclusion of which he was acquitted (May 26, 1868) by a vote of thirty-five for conviction to nineteen for acquittal, the necessary two-thirds vote for impeachment not having been obtained; retired to his home in Tennessee upon the expiration of the presidential term, March 3, 1869; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1869 and to the House of Representatives in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, until his death near Elizabethton, Carter County, Tenn., July 31, 1875; interment in the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Greeneville, Greene County, Tenn.) - https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=J000116
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- [Old catalog hdg.: Johnson, Andrew, Pres. U.S., 1808-1875]
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1979-07-02: new
2023-09-09: revised
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