Andrew Johnson Administration - Johnson's Advisers
Johnson's Advisers
President Johnson kept his own counsel and, like many presidents, reserved decision making on the largest issues to himself. He discussed strategy and policy with a handful of close friends and cabinet members and then ran the idea or decision past the whole cabinet. There were several people whom Johnson relied on more than others for policy decisions and in defending himself against impeachment.
Once Secretary of State William Henry Seward recovered from wounds suffered the same night as Lincoln's assassination, he exercised great influence over Andrew Johnson. He became one of Johnson's primary advisers on foreign affairs. Henry Stanbery of Ohio, a Republican identified with the conservative wing of his party, supported Johnson throughout his administration as attorney general and served as one of Johnson's defense attorneys during impeachment. Orville H. Browning, another conservative Republican and an...
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