Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Andrew Johnson

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Born

December 29, 1808


Birth Place

Raleigh, North Carolina


Nationality

American


Political party

Democratic


National Union


Spouse(s)

Eliza McCardle Johnson


Occupation

Tailor


Religion

Christian with no


denominational affiliation


Died

July 31, 1875


Death Place

Elizabethton, Tennessee



Andrew Johnson was served as the 17th President of the United States. Johnson presided over the rebuilding era of the United States in the four years after the American Civil War. He became the mainly prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies through the American Civil War of 1861–1865. In 1862, Lincoln selected Johnson military governor of occupied Tennessee. His conciliatory policies towards the South, his rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states back into the union, and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter argument with Radical Republicans. He did not identify with the two main parties although he did try for the Democratic nomination in 1868 and so while President he attempted to make a party of loyalists under the National Union label.

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