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Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. The 16th vice president, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was a War Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket in the 1864 presidential election, coming to office as the American Civil War concluded. Johnson favored quick restoration of the s…
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Born 29 December 1808 · Died 31 July 1875 · Q8612
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I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with Negroes, I am for it without Negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed, I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space.
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2026· 16 entries
National Park Service (.gov): Wreathlaying 2026 News Release - Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
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Yachts and Yachting Online: Flying Fifteen and Sunfast: Andrew Johnson and Anna Milne in close company with Neil and Heather McCormack - Solway Yacht Club's Kippford Week and the Kippford RNLI Regatta
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Hoodline: Andrew Johnson Building Hotel Faces Final Deadline, Developer Vows It Will Happen
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Andrew Johnson | The First U.S. President to Be Impeached
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WATE 6 On Your Side: Knox County seeks new deadline for Andrew Johnson Building redevelopment
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WBIR: Knox County considering new deadline for conversion of historic Andrew Johnson building into hotel
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WBIR: Knox County eyes fifth deadline extension for Andrew Johnson Building redevelopment
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Yahoo: Knox County weighs new deadline for redevelopment of Andrew Johnson building
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WGRV.com: Man Airlifted After Mosheim Wreck On West Andrew Johnson Highway
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Knoxville News Sentinel: William Andrew Johnson went to Washington to meet President Roosevelt
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Knoxville News Sentinel: William Johnson was freed by one president, invited to White House by another
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Greeley Tribune: Today in History: August 6, President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act
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Knoxville News Sentinel: William Andrew Johnson's story is tied to the Eighth of August holiday
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The Daily Signal: How Culture War of Andrew Johnson’s Senate Trial Resonated in Clinton, Trump Impeachments
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Snopes rated the claim “Andrew Paul Johnson, whom President Donald Trump pardoned for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing two children.” True.
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2025· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Andrew Paul Johnson, a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol who was pardoned by President Donald Trump, was arrested on child molestation charges.” True.
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2019· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A vote to impeach U.S. President Andrew Johnson was held just three days after the offending action.” True.
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1948· 1 entry
A poll of his colleagues by historian Arthur M
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1942· 1 entry
Van Heflin portrayed the former president as a fighter for democracy in the Hollywood film Tennessee Johnson
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1940· 1 entry
"is it not time that we studied the history of Reconstruction without first assuming, at least subconsciously, that carpetbaggers and Southern white Republicans were wicked, that Negroes were illiterate incompetents, and
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1906· 1 entry
And with his home and tailor's shop, is part of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
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1901· 1 entry
And the diaries of Johnson's Navy Secretary, Gideon Welles, first published in 1911
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1875· 11 entries
Died 1875-07-31.
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Was greeted with flowers, and sworn in alongside Hamlin (his predecessor as vice president) by incumbent Vice President Henry Wilson (who as senator had voted for Johnson's ouster)
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Led with 30 votes, but did not have the required majority as three former Confederate generals, one former colonel, and a former Democratic congressman split the vote with him
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Career landmark: United States senator (1875–1875).
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Making him the only former president to serve in the Senate
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“I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with Negroes, I am for it without Negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed, I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space.”
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“Colored men of Tennessee, humble and unworthy as I am, if no better shall be found I will indeed be your Moses and lead you through the Red Sea of war and bondage to a fairer future of liberty and peace. I speak now as one who feels the world his country and all who love equal rights his friends.”
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“Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.”
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“Those damned sons of bitches thought they had me in a trap! I know that damned Douglass; he's just like any nigger, and he would sooner cut a white man's throat than not.”
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“The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.”
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“Your President is now the Tribune of the people, and, thank God, I am, and intend to assert the power which the people have placed in me... Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.”
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1873· 1 entry
Johnson contracted cholera during an epidemic but recovered; that year he lost about $73,000 (~$1
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1872· 1 entry
There was a special election for an at-large congressional seat for Tennessee; Johnson initially sought the Democratic nomination, but when he saw that it would go to former Confederate general Benjamin F
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1868· 3 entries
The impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months
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The House impeached the President for intentionally violating the Tenure of Office Act, by a vote of 128 to 47
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A feat no one who had succeeded a deceased president had managed to accomplish, attempting to secure a Democratic anti-Congressional Reconstruction coalition in the South
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1867· 2 entries
De Stoeckl and Seward signed the treaty, working quickly as the Senate was about to adjourn
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And the first Civil Rights Bill, to grant citizenship to the freedmen
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1866· 4 entries
Johnson and his cabinet gave a reception for Queen Emma of Hawaii who was returning to Hawaii after her trip to Britain and Europe
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Washington's Birthday, Johnson gave an impromptu speech to supporters who had marched to the White House and called for an address in honor of the first president
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To the delight of white Southerners and the puzzled anger of Republican legislators
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Went on an unprecedented national tour promoting his executive policies, seeking to break Republican opposition
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1865· 3 entries
It might have been better if Johnson had stayed in Nashville
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Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1865–1865).
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1865–1869).
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1864· 3 entries
Because Lincoln wanted to send a message of national unity in his re-election campaign
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Lincoln ran under the banner of the National Union Party, rather than that of the Republicans
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And sent an agent to sound out General Benjamin Butler as a possible running mate
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1862· 3 entries
Lincoln appointed him as Military Governor of Tennessee after most of it had been retaken
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Career landmark: Governor of Tennessee (1862–1865).
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After his departure from the Senate and in the absence of most Southern legislators, the Homestead Bill was finally enacted
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1861· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1861–1862).
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1860· 2 entries
Lincoln's running mate had been Senator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine
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"having Johnson, the southern War Democrat, on the ticket sent the right message about the folly of secession and the continuing capacity for union within the country
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1859· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1859–1861).
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It failed on a procedural vote when Vice President Breckinridge broke a tie against the bill, and in 1860, a watered-down version passed both houses, only to be vetoed by Buchanan at the urging of Southerners
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1857· 3 entries
Johnson purchased Henry, who was 13 at the time and would later accompany the Johnson family to the White House
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While returning from Washington, his train derailed, causing serious damage to his right arm
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Career landmark: United States senator (1857–1859).
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1852· 2 entries
Johnson managed to get the House to pass his Homestead Bill, but it failed in the Senate
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Former New Hampshire senator Franklin Pierce, Johnson campaigned for him
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1844· 1 entry
And Johnson had campaigned for him, the two men had difficult relations, and President Polk refused some of his patronage suggestions
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1843· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States representative (1843–1853).
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Johnson purchased his first slave, Dolly, who was 14 years old at the time
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1840· 1 entry
Johnson was selected as a presidential elector for Tennessee, giving him more statewide publicity
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1839· 1 entry
Sought to regain his seat, initially as a Whig, but when another candidate sought the Whig nomination, he ran as a Democrat and was elected
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1837· 1 entry
Johnson would not lose another race for thirty years
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1835· 1 entry
Johnson made a bid for election to the "floater" (open) seat which Greene County shared with neighboring Washington County in the Tennessee House of Representatives
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1834· 1 entry
His fellow aldermen elected him mayor of Greeneville
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1831· 1 entry
A state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disenfranchise free people of color
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1827· 1 entry
At the age of 18, he married 16-year-old Eliza McCardle, the daughter of a local shoemaker
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1808· 2 entries
Born 1808-12-29.
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To Jacob Johnson and Mary ("Polly") McDonough, a laundress
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