Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office.

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 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 ...

Draped in funereal crepe after Lincoln was assassinated there ... "The nest where the egg was hatched," President Andrew Johnson said of Surratt's boardinghouse (left, then; right, now).

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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 ...

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 ...