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  1. 1 day ago · On the evening of April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by a Confederate sympathizer and the next morning, Johnson was sworn in as president. Lincoln was the first president whose body was transported by a funeral train. The nine-car train traveled from Washington D.C. to Springfield, Illinois, passing through 180 cities.

  2. 5 days ago · Library of Congress Collection: Andrew Johnson Papers more... less... "The papers of vice president, senator, and representative Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), who became the seventeenth president of the Unites States in 1865 after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, consist of 40,000 items (63,710 images), most of which were digitized from 55 ...

  3. 2 days ago · We visit President Andrew Johnson's visitor center in Greeneville, TN. You will see his childhood home, a replica of the home he was born in, his tailor shop...

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  4. 1 day ago · Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson in 1874. Born: Dec. 28, 1808 (Raleigh, North Carolina) Died: July 31, 1875 (Elizabethton, Tennessess) Term: 1865-1869. Tie to sports: Andrew Johnson was born into abject poverty and didn’t receive a formal education, so sports weren’t an option when he was growing up.

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  5. 4 days ago · Andrew Johnson. While Middle and West Tennessee were sympathetic to the South, the majority of East Tennesseans remained loyal to the Union, and some attempted to form a separate, pro-Union state. This turmoil was reflected in the career of Andrew Johnson, a popular Democratic governor and U.S. senator before the war.

  6. 2 days ago · For the next two summers, he nannied for two of the camp’s directors, Andrew Braner and his wife at the time, Jamie Jo Johnson. Peter Newman at a 2009 court appearance. News-Leader file photo

  7. 2 days ago · After Lincoln's assassination, Andrew Johnson became president. On May 29, 1865, Johnson issued an amnesty proclamation to ordinary Southern citizens who swore loyalty oaths, promising not only political immunity but also return of confiscated property.