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Andrew Johnson first started out by being in Tennessee doing politics. He had held many positions in office such as; congressman, governor, and U.S. Senator. He was the only Senator that was from a Confederate state to stay devoted to the Union after there was a secession. Andrew Johnson was a slave-owner before but in 1863 he was a supporter of being against slavery which meant he strongly disliked wealthy Southern planters. While Abraham Lincoln was president, Johnson was the VP but shortly after Lincoln's assassination, in 1865, Johnson became the 17th president. When he was VP he followed the 10% plan and was against slavery and also lenient on the South. While he was serving from 1865 to 1869, he had faced two big, problematic issues. Those issues were whether to punish or pardon former Confederates and on how to bring the Confederate states who lost to be brought back into the Union. In the beginning of 1865, he declared "harsh punishment" for the leaders of the rebellion. **__Citations:__** Picture - "Andrew Johnson." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Sept. 2015. Web. 23 Sept. 2015. Information - Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Print.