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#AceHistoryDesk – Today in History – Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, was born in Raleigh, North California, on December 29, 1808. His father’s death when the boy was three left the family in poverty.

From age fourteen to age seventeen, young Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor. He then moved with his mother and stepfather to Greeneville, Tennessee, where he established himself as a tailor. Johnson never attended school but taught himself to read and write—he all but memorized the U.S. Constitution—and after his 1827 marriage to Eliza McCardle, a shoemaker’s daughter, acquired a good common education under her tutelage.

A gifted orator, Johnson quickly ascended the political ladder. In 1829, he won his first office, as an alderman. In steady succession he became mayor of Greeneville, a member of the Tennessee state legislature (1835-37, 1839-43), U.S. congressman (1843-53), governor of Tennessee (1853-57), and U.S. senator (1857-62). In Congress, Johnson supported the annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War, and sponsored a homestead bill that anticipated the 1862 Homestead Act. He also was the only Southern senator who firmly supported the Union and remained in the Senate throughout both the secession crisis and the Civil War. In the spring of 1862, after federal forces captured portions of Tennessee, President Lincoln appointed him military governor of the state, an office he held despite constant danger to his life.

Two years later, influential moderates such as William Seward worked to secure Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, as Lincoln’s running mate on the Republican Party ticket.

According to a May 20, 1865, editorial in Harper’s Weekly, Seward had seen in Johnson “that his fellow-Senator, a land-reformer, a stern Union man, a trusted representative of the people of the South as distinguished from the planting aristocracy, was the very kind of leader by whom the political power of the aristocracy was ultimately to be overthrown in its own section.”

After Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, little more than a month after their inauguration, Johnson assumed the presidency. His administration ran more smoothly in the foreign than the domestic arena: in 1867, Secretary of State Seward purchased Alaska and helped negotiate France’s withdrawal of troops from Mexico.

Domestically, Johnson faced a crisis with radical congressional Republicans who deemed his post-war Reconstruction policies far too lenient toward white Southerners and insufficiently supportive of former slaves.

Regarding secession as a legal impossibility that ought to require little legislation to cancel, and bearing a white Southerner’s racial prejudices, Johnson sought to minimize the conditions under which those who had seceded could resume full citizenship and wished to do little beyond the Thirteenth Amendment to ensure rights and protections for the freedmen. (He had no interest, for example, in guaranteeing newly emancipated men the right to vote.) Ill will and deep political disagreements culminated in Congress voting articles of impeachment against Johnson in February 1868. On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate acquitted Johnson of the charges by a single vote and he served the remainder of his presidential term.

After his presidency, Johnson sought to vindicate himself by gaining reelection to the Senate. His first two bids were unsuccessful, but in 1875, he again became a U.S. senator from Tennessee. He died just months into his term.“

Outside the Library, see Finding Precedent: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, which provides excerpts from more than 200 articles from Harper’s Weekly during the period 1865-69; or explore the full history of the impeachment itself in the book presented online by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

Learn More

• View the online collection of Andrew Johnson Papers, one of 23 collections of presidential papers held by the Library’s Manuscript Division. This online collection includes a Timeline of key events in Johnson’s life.
• See the Today in History feature on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson to read more about the first president to be impeached by the House and tried in the Senate. This feature includes links to additional materials found on the Library website related to Johnson’s impeachment.
• Search on the phrase Andrew Johnson in the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection to see more photographs of the Johnson residence in Greeneville.
• Browse the collection Chronological List of Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents of the United States to find images of Andrew and Eliza Johnson.
• The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana contains two pieces of sheet music which mention “Andy” Johnson. Search the collection on the phrase Abe and Andy to find them
• See Andrew Johnson: A Resource Guide that directs you to a wide variety of digital materials both on the Library’s website as well as external sources.
• To find resources for learning about elections and U.S. presidents, explore the Teachers Page presentation Elections.

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