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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lincoln was succeeded by Vice President Andrew Johnson. Booth was shot and killed on April 26, 1865, after he was found hiding in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia. Garfield was the second ...

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 ...