Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was a U.S. Senator from Greeneville, Tennessee at the time of the secession of the southern states. He was the only Southern Senator not to quit his post upon secession, and became the most prominent War Democrat from the South. In 1862 Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of Tennessee, … Wikipedia
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Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States under the US Constituion after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865. andrewjohnson.org
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Johnson debated regularly at the nearby academy, and honed his already impressive oration skills to an excellent state. jbw1291-essays.wikispaces.org/The+Andrew+Johnson+Administ...
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Johnson supported John Breckinridge in the 1860 general election, but broke with Southern Democrats on the issue of secession in 1861 for which he was widely vilified in the South. www.mlwh.org/inside.asp?ID=91&subjectID=2