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4 days ago · President Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, is often remembered as a controversial and divisive figure in American history. Johnson, who served as vice president under Abraham Lincoln and assumed the presidency after Lincoln's assassination in 1865, faced significant challenges during his time in office.
3 days ago · On May 26, 1868, President Andrew Johnson was narrowly acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial. On May 28, 1868, he issued the first Memorial Day Order (see the "Master Table" below for links to specific documents). Johnson’s "order" is more of a request to the Executive Departments that employees be allowed, if “consistent with law and the ...
2 days ago · 5/26/1868: Senate acquitted President Andrew Johnson and adjourned as court of impeachment. Chief Justice Chase presided over that trial. Johnson is one of four presidents that did not appoint any ...
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3 days ago · President Andrew Johnson Banquet. Columbus, Ohio. September 12, 1866. In an attempt to bolster his mild Reconstruction policies and support his preferred candidates in the North, President Andrew Johnson took his cabinet on an eighteen-day speaking campaign during the congressional elections of 1866.
4 days ago · After being impeached, President Andrew Johnson survived his 1868 Senate trial by just one vote. And to this day, how that vote was cast remains shrouded in controversy. Senator Edmund Ross, a loyal Republican, shocked the nation when he voted not guilty in the impeachment trial of Johnson.
1 day ago · In 1866, President Andrew Johnson promoted Grant to General of the Army. Later, Grant broke with Johnson over Reconstruction policies. A war hero, drawn in by his sense of duty, Grant was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party and then elected president in 1868 .
1 day ago · The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
