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Biografie. Andrew Johnson werd geboren in Raleigh (North Carolina) en was autodidact. Hij verhuisde in 1826 naar Tennessee, waar hij werkzaam was als kleermaker. Hij was wethouder in Greeneville van 1828 tot 1830 en van 1834 tot 1838 burgemeester. Van 1835 tot 1837 en van 1839 tot 1841 was hij lid van het Huis van Afgevaardigden van Tennessee.
2 de abr. de 2014 · Andrew Johnson became the 17th president of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865. His lenient Reconstruction policies toward the South, and his ...
Andrew Johnson ran away from his apprenticeship as a teenager. With a reward on his head, he traveled throughout the South honing his trade. He eventually returned to Raleigh, NC for his mother and step-father. They settled in Greeneville, TN, where Andrew opened his own shop and married a local girl, Eliza McCardle.
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.
Andrew Johnson, né le 29 décembre 1808 à Raleigh (Caroline du Nord) et mort le 31 juillet 1875 à Elizabethton (), est un homme d'État américain, 17 e président des États-Unis en fonction de 1865 à 1869. Membre du Parti démocrate et 16 e vice-président des États-Unis élu en 1864 comme colistier d'Abraham Lincoln, Johnson succéda à ce dernier après son assassinat l'année suivante.
Hace 4 días · Andrew Johnson’s racism and antipathy towards African-American civil rights were a harbinger for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to be impeached—but not convicted or removed from office—Johnson often contends with James Buchanan for the title of worst president.
With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states ...
