Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh ... Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death. Johnson’s Reconstruction policies for the South did not include ...

Most of the 45 men who have served as president were e indifferent to the needs of Black folks or actively opposed to ...

Jay Monaghan's' *Lincoln Bibliography* requires ... for the Lincolnian mantle appeared in the person of Andrew Johnson, the new President. After a momentary aberration in which he seemed more ...

A Unionist Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was put on the ticket by Lincoln in 1864 in an effort to reach union ... for similar attitudes to come during Reconstruction. The first president to ...

Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled ... becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S ...

Vice President Johnson had assumed office after John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, on April 15 ... of the South could not succeed with Andrew Johnson in office.

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the president's assassination. Conflicts ...