21. President Of The United States - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia andrew johnson was elected to the same Senate that tried his impeachment afterhis term was Four us Presidents have been assassinated while in office http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States

President of the United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Washington , 1st President of the United States ( The President of the United States (often abbreviated " POTUS ") is the head of state of the United States . Under the U.S. Constitution , the President is also the chief executive of the federal government and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces Because of the superpower status of the United States, the American President is considered by many to be the most powerful person on Earth, and is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the Cold War , the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world ," a phrase that is still invoked today. The United States was the first nation to create the office of President , the head of state in a modern republic . Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a presidential system of government. The current President of the United States is George W. Bush Contents Requirements to hold office Presidential elections Presidential powers Succession ... edit Requirements to hold office Abraham Lincoln , 16th President of the United States ( Section One of Article II of the U.S. Constitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to become President. The president must be a

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23. Pres. Andrew Johnson Collection The president andrew johnson Museum and Library is housed in the second oldest 1875 (March 4) Sworn in us Senate (only president to return to Senate) http://ajmuseum.tusculum.edu/ajcollection.html

Tusculum College President Andrew Johnson Collection The President Andrew Johnson Museum and Library is housed in the second oldest building on the Tusculum College campus-"Old College". The building was built in 1841 for a total of $4,245.62. Andrew Johnson gave a $20.00 donation for the construction of the building, one of the largest local donations according to the minutes of the Board of Trustees. Johnson often found himself on the campus where he met with students and developed his debating skills. Andrew Johnson also served as a trustee of Tusculum College from 1844 to 1875. President Johnson's great granddaughter, Margaret Johnson Patterson Bartlett, graduated from Tusculum College in 1924. She donated the initial artifacts for the museum and her estate has also acquired additional artifacts for the museum. Andrew Johnson was born December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina, the son of a hotel porter and a housekeeper. His father died when he was three, and he never received a day of formal education. Apprenticed to a tailor as a child, he ran away as a teenager and, after several years, settled in

24. Andrew Johnson As a member of the us House, johnson opposed government involvement in the Within six weeks of taking office as Vice president, johnson succeeded to the http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/AndrewJohnson.h

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson »Name: Andrew Johnson back to Who Was Who A Robert C.Kennedy, HarpWeek Source: Michael Les Benedict, "Andrew Johnson" on the Grolier's On-Line website Andrew Johnson (29 December 1808 - 31 July 1875) Source: The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents Website design © 1998 HarpWeek, LLC Images, logos, and all other content © 1998 HarpWeek, LLC., unless otherwise noted. Please report problems to webmaster@harpweek.com

25. Edwin M. Stanton In 1857, he was appointed by us Attorney General Jeremiah Black to represent of the battle to impeach and remove president andrew johnson from office. http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/EdwinMStanton.h

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson »Name: Edwin McMasters Stanton back to Who Was Who E dwin Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to devout Methodist parents. Beginning in childhood, he suffered from asthma throughout his life. After graduating from Kenyon College in 1833, he studied law under a judge. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1835, but had to wait several months until his 21 st birthday before he could begin to practice. He developed a very successful legal career in Ohio, then Pittsburgh, and finally Washington, D. C. After the 1860 presidential election, Stanton gave up a lucrative law practice to become Attorney General in the lame-duck presidential administration of James Buchanan. He advised Buchanan to act forcefully against the South, but when the president did not, Stanton clandestinely keep the Republicans, particularly William Henry Seward, informed about White House policy decisions. In 1862, President Lincoln decided to remove the corrupt and ineffective Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, by appointing him Minister to Russia. Seward and Salmon Chase successfully lobbied the President to name Stanton as his new Secretary of War. He once again gave up a prosperous law practice to enter public service. He proved to be a strong and effective cabinet officer, instituting practices to rid the War Department of waste and corruption.

26. US Vice President, Vice President Of The US, US Presidents & Vice Presidents, Pr us presidentS, us VICE presidentS. George Washington (1789 1797) 1865-1869,andrew johnson became president upon the death of Abraham Lincoln http://www.mapsofworld.com/us-presidents/us-presidents-and-vice-presidents.html

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Maps of World US President Trivia Which US President before becoming President negotiated the Treaty of Peace in Paris granting independence to the British colonies in America? John Adams. The other two American negotiators in Paris were Benjamin Franklin and John Jay. To whom did General Lord Cornwallis surrender? On 19th Oct 1781, Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia thus ending the Revolutionary War. Q. Which President purchased the Louisiana Territory? A. President Thomas Jefferson from Napoleon in 1803. Q. Which President purchased Alaska? A. President Andrew Johnson purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. Q. In which Presidential election did an electoral tie result? A. In the presidential election of 1800 between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, an electoral tie resulted. It was resolved by the US House of Representatives which elected Thomas Jefferson as President and Aaron Burr as Vice-President. Who was the first President to live in the White House? President John Adams.

28. Johnson, Andrew. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 As us Representative and Senator, johnson was principally interested in securing 1958); M. Lomask, andrew johnson president on Trial (1960, repr. http://www.bartleby.com/65/jo/JohnsonAn.html

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29. Johnson, Andrew andrew johnson us president 1865-69 andrew johnson - A presidential Biographyfor Kids The Impeachment Trial of president andrew johnson http://www.classbrain.com/artbiographies/publish/andrew_johnson.shtml

Home 1st - 3rd Grade Ask ClassBrain Biographies Corporate Information Country Reports Defining Documents Freedom Files Games Mission Reports Monthy Grab Bag Monuments and Memorials Movies in the Classroom State Reports Teens ClassBrain Store Front Page A - D E - H I - L ... U - Z Search All Categories A - D E - H I - L M - P Q - T U - Z Advanced Search Last Updated: Feb 6th, 2005 - 23:11:05 I - L Johnson, Andrew By The White House Nov 14, 2004, 21:29 Email this article Printer friendly page Andrew Johnson US President - 1865-69 Courtesy of the Library of Congress With the Assassination of Lincoln, the Presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views. Although an honest and honorable man, Andrew Johnson was one of the most unfortunate of Presidents. Arrayed against him were the Radical Republicans in Congress, brilliantly led and ruthless in their tactics. Johnson was no match for them. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808, Johnson grew up in poverty. He was apprenticed to a tailor as a boy, but ran away. He opened a tailor shop in Greeneville, Tennessee, married Eliza McCardle, and participated in debates at the local academy. Entering politics, he became an adept stump speaker, championing the common man and vilifying the plantation aristocracy. As a Member of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 1840's and '50's, he advocated a homestead bill to provide a free farm for the poor man.

30. Andrew JOHNSON Life of andrew johnson, Seventeenth president of the United States . 1901. andrew johnson A Biography . New York WW Norton Co., 1989. us Congress. http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/johnson-andrew.html

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31. Andrew Johnson History and Government—us presidents—Biographies of the presidents andrewjohnson johnson, andrew, 1808–75, 17th president of the United States http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760602.html

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33. Andrew Johnson National Historic Site (National Park Service) us Park Service s preserve of 17th president s two homes, tailor shop, and gravesite; site gives visiting and activity schedule, a virtual visitor center, http://www.nps.gov/anjo/

Fee Information Andrew Johnson National Historic Site honors the life and work of the nation's 17th President and preserves his two homes, tailor shop, and grave site. Andrew Johnson's life exemplifies many struggles faced by Americans today. He worked his way from tailor to President. He stood strong for his ideals and beliefs. His presidency, from 1865 - 1869, illustrates the United States Constitution at work following Lincoln's assassination and during attempts to reunify a nation that had been torn by civil war. His work helped shape the future of the United States and his influences continue today. Search Search this park Search nps.gov Home Accessibility Activities Facts ... FirstGov

34. U.S. Presidents And Baseball - A Historical Study By Baseball Almanac Almost every single us president has had some connection, good or bad, andrew johnson 18651869. Quotations. 18th. Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 http://www.baseball-almanac.com/prz_menu.shtml

Baseball Almanac: Where What Happened Yesterday is Being Preserved Today Advertising Downloads Feedback Newsletter ... Year In Review Google Baseball Almanac "I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner." - President Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) Almost every single U.S. President has had some connection, good or bad, with our national pastime. Throwing the first pitch, hosting a team in the Oval Office, receiving a lifetime field pass and many other historic events have taken place with sitting presidents, future presidents and previous presidents. This section brings forth those historical moments where baseball and Presidents came together on the field. Menu Sponsored by: (Please visit today!) Superb Memorabilia from Presidential Baseball Past The Presidents of the United States And Their Relationship to Baseball U.S. President Link(s) st George Washington Quotations nd John Adams Quotations rd Thomas Jefferson Quotations th James Madison No Data th James Monroe No Data th John Quincy Adams No Data th Andrew Jackson No Data th Martin Van Buren No Data th William Henry Harrison No Data th John Tyler No Data th James Polk No Data th Zachary Taylor No Data th Millard Fillmore No Data th Franklin Pierce No Data th James Buchanan No Data th Abraham Lincoln Quotations th Andrew Johnson Quotations th Ulysses S. Grant

35. Reader's Companion To American History - -JOHNSON, ANDREW johnson, andrew. (18081875), seventeenth president of the United States. johnson soon turned to politics, rising to governor and us senator. http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_048000_johnsonandre.htm

Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History JOHNSON, ANDREW , seventeenth president of the United States. Johnson, the only president ever to be impeached, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, into very moderate circumstances. Apprenticed to a tailor as a youth, he ran away from his employer and settled in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he established himself as a tailor. Johnson soon turned to politics, rising to governor and U.S. senator. He became a spokesman for the Jacksonian Democrats of his state, favoring populist measures, particularly a homestead bill. In 1860-1861, he remained loyal to the Union, the only senator from a seceding state to do so, and in 1862, Abraham Lincoln appointed him military governor of Tennessee. In 1864 Johnson was elected vice president. Inaugurated as president after Lincoln's assassination, he announced his hatred for "traitors," but in reality embraced a lenient Reconstruction policy. A firm believer in states' rights, he held that blacks were innately inferior. Consequently, he asserted that the southern states had never left the Union and ought to be restored quickly, without regard to the safety of the freedmen. This was the rationale for his granting amnesty to all but a few ex-Confederates and appointing provisional governors charged with calling on white voters to reestablish loyal governments. The resulting administrations enacted Black Codes that virtually remanded the freedmen to slavery.

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Entries Publication Data Dedication Advisory Board ... World Civilizations The Great American History Fact-Finder Johnson, Andrew , seventeenth president of the United States and the only president ever to be impeached, though he was acquitted. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Johnson moved to Greeneville, Tennessee, where he worked as a tailor. His interest in politics and the plight of the working man led to his election to several local offices and service in the Tennessee state legislature. A Jackson Democrat, Johnson served five terms in the House of Representatives , two terms as governor of Tennessee , and in the U.S. Senate . In the Senate he pushed for the Homestead Act and took a middle course on the slavery issue, favoring both the Union and slavery. In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln appointed him military governor of Tennessee after the state seceded. Johnson remained loyal to the Union, the only U.S. senator from seceding states to do so. Although a Democrat, he became Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate in 1864 to help unite the Union, and succeeded to the presidency on April 15, 1865, when Lincoln was assassinated. He became embroiled in disputes with Congress over how to treat the South following the war. Johnson's vetoes of the Freedmen's Bureau and civil rights bill were over-ridden by the Radical Republicans . The president's removal of the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in defiance of the Tenure of Office Act prompted the House of Representatives to pass resolutions of

37. Andrew Johnson Books And Articles - Research Andrew Johnson At us, 18081875. 4 The years of the presidency of andrew johnson are filled with a Hawkins Peck in 1830, president andrew johnson in 1868, and president http://www.questia.com/library/history/united-states-history/presidents/andrew-j

38. The Trial Of Andrew Johnson, 1868 Is the respondent, andrew johnson, president of the United States, When itcame, he himself poured it into glasses for us, and we all stood up and drank http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/john.htm

19th Century Washington D.C., 1800 A Duel At Dawn, 1804 Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807 ... The Rough Riders Storm San Juan Hill, 1898 The Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868 Printer Friendly Version >>> D uring Andrew Johnson's rise to political power, the former senator and military governor of Tennessee and Abraham Lincoln's vice-president had become an advocate of the small farmers over the large planters, but he shared the racial attitudes of most white yeomen farmers. "Damn the negroes," proclaimed the War Democrat to a friend during the war, "I am fighting those traitorous aristocrats, their masters." His tough talk about the rebel leaders initially delighted the Radical Republicans. They soon changed their minds when Johnson revealed his beliefs about readmitting the Southern states to the Union. The Radicals, long involved in the antislavery cause, were less than pleased to hear the strict constitutionalist Johnson argue that "there is no such thing as reconstruction. Those states have not gone out of the Union. Therefore reconstruction is unnecessary." When Congress met in December 1865 for the first time since Lincoln's death, all but Mississippi had accepted Johnson's lenient requirements for readmission issued earlier that year through a series of proclamations. Though they approved the 13th Amendment

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English-Zone.Com ...the BEST English-Learner's site on the 'Net! American Presidents Reading for Specific Purposes: Practice finding information in tables. Use the information in the table on the left to answer the questions on the right. LEGEND: Died in office x Resigned from Presidency Assassinated in office xx Resigned from Vice Presidency Appointed Vice President (Not elected) Year President Vice President(s) Party George Washington John Adams none John Adams Thomas Jefferson Federalist Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr (to 1805) George Clinton (to 1809) Dem-Rep James Madison George Clinton (to 1813) Elbridge Gerry (to 1817) Dem-Rep James Monroe Daniel D.Tompkins Dem-Rep John Quincy Adams John C. Calhoun Nat-Rep Andrew Jackson John C. Calhoun(to 1833) Martin van Buren (to 1837) Democrat Martin van Buren Richard M. Johnson Democrat +1 William Harrison John Tyler Whig John Tyler No Vice President Whig James K. Polk George M. Dallas Democrat +2 Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore Whig Millard Fillmore No Vice President Whig Franklin Pierce William R. King Democrat James Buchanan John C. Breckinridge

40. Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson Only one president in us history has been impeached by the House of After Lincolnwas assassinated, andrew johnson took the oath of office on April 15, http://www.crf-usa.org/impeachment/impeachment1.html

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION WEB LESSON Updated 12/16/98 The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Only one president in U.S. history has been impeached by the House of Representatives: Andrew Johnson in 1868. At his trial in the Senate, Johnson escaped conviction by a single vote. In the election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, chose Senator Andrew Johnson, a Tennessee Democrat, as his vice-presidential running mate. Lincoln believed that Johnson, the only senator from a rebel state to remain loyal to the Union, would help persuade Democrats to vote Republican. After Lincoln was assassinated, Andrew Johnson took the oath of office on April 15, 1865. Two profound questions faced the nation. First, under what conditions should the Southern rebel states be readmitted into the Union? Second, what rights should the freedmen, or ex-slaves, have? A little over a month after becoming president, Johnson began executing his plan for reconstructing the South. Johnson pardoned all rebels except Confederate leaders. He also restored all rebel property except for slaves. Finally, he authorized each rebel state to call a convention of white delegates to draw up a new constitution. Once completed, a new state government could then be formed, and the state could apply for readmission to the Union.

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