Andrew Johnson

POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat, National Union (1864-68)

VITALS
5 ft 10 in / 174 lbs

CAREER
1826-53 Tailor, Greeneville, Tennessee
1830-33 Alderman, Greeneville
1834 Mayor, Greeneville
1835-43 Member, Tennessee State Legislature
1843-53 U.S. Representatives, Tennessee
1853-57 Governor, Tennessee
1857-62 U.S. Senator, Tennessee
1862-65 Military Governor, Tennessee
1865 U.S. Vice President (Lincoln)

ADMINISTRATION
13th Amendment (Abolition of slavery), Confederate soldier amnesty (1865); Purchased Alaska from Russia (1867); 14th Amendment (Equal Protection); Fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton leading to impeachment by the House and acquittal by the Senate (1868)

NEW STATES
Nebraska (1867)

FIRST LADY
Eliza McCardle (1865-69)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1869 Unsuccessful run for U.S. Senator, Tennessee
1872 Unsuccessful run for U.S. Representative, Tennessee
1875 U.S. Senator, Tennessee

“Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges.”
Speech in Cleveland, Ohio, September 3, 1866

Portrait of Andrew Johnson by Eliphalet Andrews, 1880.