Andrew Johnson
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Andrew Johnson was born on December 29 in 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina. He succeeded
Abraham Lincoln as president and he was the first president to be impeached. He was the 17th president of the United States. He died from a stroke in Tennessee on July 31, 1875.
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In 1865, Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln when Lincoln was shot. Johnson's VP opponent was George H. Pendleton
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During Andrew Johnson’s presidency, his secretary of state, William Seward, negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. At the time of the 1867 deal, critics called it “Seward’s Folly.” Alaska became the 49th U.S. state on January 3, 1959.
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In the Reconstruction program, Johnson returned confiscated property to white southerners, issued hundreds of pardons to former Confederate officers and government officials, and undermined the Freedmen’s Bureau by ordering it to return all confiscated lands to white landowners.
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Johnson also appointed governors to supervise the drafting of new state constitutions and agreed to readmit each state that ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. Hoping that Reconstruction would be complete by the time Congress reconvened a few months later, he declared Reconstruction over at the end of 1865.
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Something very interesting about Andrew Johnson was that he never "ran" for president. He was succeeded in when Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed. When Johnson came to office, he wanted to do everything he could to help the southern states and many northerners were angry over Lincoln's assassination. They felt differently and this caused issues between Johnson and Congress. One of the most known events of Johnson's presidency was he was one of two presidents in history that have been impeached.
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In 1868, he was impeached by Congress, but he was not removed from office. He did not run for a second presidential term. Johnson died at age 66 on July 31, 1875, after suffering a stroke while visiting family in Carter County, Tennessee.
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In a 2010 Siena College survey, Johnson was called the worst president in history.
And in a 2011 survey from a British academic institute, listing the top as the best and bottom as the worst, he was ranked as the 36th worst out of 40 presidents.
I'd have to agree that he was one of the worst presidents because even though he at first agreed with Lincoln in ending slavery, when he became president he stated, “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men,” he wrote in 1866. He also failed in his GOP Reconstruction plan.
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