Jan 2, 2010

Salem on History | Andrew Johnson

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Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
Categories: Government and Politics
Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers, Wars, Battles, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Reconstruction, American Civil War, Civil Wars, Coups
Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877)

Article abstract: Johnson was a Tennessee politician, a Civil War military governor of Tennessee, a vice president of the United States, and the seventeenth president of the United States, from 1865 to 1869. His lenient Reconstruction policies toward the South embittered members of Congress and postponed unification of the embattled republic.

Early Life

Andrew Johnson was the son of Jacob and Mary (McDonough) Johnson, illiterate tavern servants in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Andrew was born in 1808 and grew up in dire poverty. In 1822, Andrew was...

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Salem on History | Andrew Johnson

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Early Life

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