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For the full article, see Andrew Johnson . Andrew Johnson, (born Dec. 29, 1808, Raleigh, N.C., U.S.—died July 31, 1875, near Carter Station, Tenn.), 17th president of the U.S. (1865–69). Born in poverty, he never attended school, and he taught himself to read and write. After a short apprenticeship as a tailor, he moved with his family to ...
Andrew Johnson and Congress were unable to agree on a plan for restoring the ravaged country following the Civil War. There was a marked difference between Congressional Reconstruction—outlined in the first Military Reconstruction Act , as well as the second and the third—and Andrew Johnson's plan for Presidential Restoration .
Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He grew up in poverty and was apprenticed to a tailor as a boy, but ran away. As an adult, he opened a tailor shop in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he met and married Eliza McCardle. The couple raised five children together, and Eliza supported her husband ...
Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln . Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of the secession of the southern states. He was the only Southern Senator ...
When Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, N.C. on December 29, 1808, no one could have imagined that he would achieve any kind of national recognition, good or bad. He was the youngest of three children born to Jacob and Mary McDonough Johnson, who lived in poverty in the state’s capital city. Jacob Johnson died in early 1812, shortly after ...
Andrew Johnson. 17th President. Born: December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina... A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led ...
Andrew Johnson. Date of Birth - Death December 29, 1808 - July 31, 1875. Often dubbed the “courageous commoner,” Andrew Johnson was born in a log cabin in Raleigh, North Carolina to nearly illiterate parents. He was not proficient in the basics of reading, writing, and math until he met his wife at age seventeen.
