Andrew Johnson, they believed, would carry through the proposed social revolution in the South which the conciliatory Lincoln had blocked. Now, crowed Ben Wade, "there will be no trouble running ...

A Unionist Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was put on the ticket by Lincoln in 1864 in an effort to reach union sympathizers in the Border States. Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate ...

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.

Andrew Johnson's history in Greenville TN goes back to his childhood. He was born in Raleigh North Carolina in 1808 and apprenticed to a tailor there while still very young.

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 ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh ... In 1864, as a symbol of unity during the war, Abraham Lincoln persuaded Republican delegates to make Johnson, a Democrat, his running mate.