For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh, North Carolina. At 14, he was indentured to a tailor but ran away, ending up in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he caught the eye of Eliza McCardle.