His father’s death when the boy was three left the family in poverty. From age fourteen to age seventeen, young Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor. He then moved with his mother and stepfather ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in ... Abraham Lincoln persuaded Republican delegates to make Johnson, a Democrat, his running mate. Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after ...

These included Andrew Johnson (17th president), Ulysses S. Grant (18th president), Grover Cleveland (22nd & 24th), Benjamin Harrison (23rd), WIlliam McKinley (25th), and Theodore Roosevelt (26th).

Legacy: 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 ...

They include: -- Scientist Charles Macintosh in 1766 -- Industrialist Charles Goodyear in 1800 -- Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the United States, in 1808 -- Gen. Billy Mitchell, father of the ...

Chervinsky When the 17th president was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors in 1868, the wild trial nearly reignited the Civil War Lorraine Boissoneault The biggest show in Washington 150 years ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the president's assassination. Conflicts ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...