They knew that their program for reconstruction of the South could not succeed with Andrew ... Johnson suspended Stanton. In his place, Johnson appointed the popular General Ulysses S. Grant ...

M.A. Cultural Geography, University of California Los Angeles, 2012. B.A. Geography, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2006. Andrew Grant was a visiting scholar from February 2018 to January 2019.

When Ulysses S. Grant took office, he seemed ready to continue Andrew Johnson's money policy. Like Johnson, Grant tried to improve the economy by reducing the supply of greenbacks, or paper dollars.

Andrew Grant (PhD 2016, UCLA) is a political geographer. His research on the effects of urbanization on Tibetans in Western China was supported by a Fulbright Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship.

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 ...

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.