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Andrew Finis Johnson







Andrew Johnson was born on December 29th 1808 and was the 17th president of the United Stats. He was the Vice President when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. When Johnson was three, his dad died and he and his brother became indentured servants and they later ran away. Andrew Johnson also never went to school, and opened is own shop to make some money because his mom sold him for 10 dollars. He then got married and lived in Tennesse.

He opened his first shop at 19 and then by the age of 22 he actually became elected as mayor. He then made his way up to the House of Representatives and then became a Tennesse Senator. He then became elected congressman in 1843. Abraham Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson to tbe the military governor and they beat the democrats. He then became president after Lincoln’s assassination on April 15th 1865. People were also planning on killing him too. Seward’s Folly happened, when the united states purchased Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars. He then became the first president to ever become impeached.

Johnson removed Edwin Stanton, who was his secretary of war and put in Ulysses S. Grant instead. Even though the Tenure of Office Act was passed by congress, which was an act where the president can’t remove his appointed officials from his office.

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