Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh, North Carolina. At 14, he was indentured to a tailor but ran away, ending up in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he caught the eye of Eliza McCardle.

A Unionist Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was put on the ticket by Lincoln in 1864 in an effort to reach union sympathizers in the Border States. Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate ...

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 ...

Andrew Johnson is the B.C. Bureau Chief for CTV National News, based in Vancouver. Andrew grew up in the ski towns of the Kootenays before moving to Vancouver Island. He enrolled at the University ...