It was when he was serving as military governor that Abraham Lincoln asked him to replace Hannibal Hamlin as vice president in the 1864 campaign. A Democrat, Johnson switched parties for the election.

On April 15, 1865, Vice-President Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the seventeenth President of the United States, after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Johnson became the first ...

Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three hours after Lincoln’s death. Johnson’s Reconstruction policies for the South did not include assurance of rights for newly-freed blacks, a ...

Elected Republicans sometimes conjure memories of President Andrew Johnson, the cantankerous and muddleheaded Democrat who succeeded Abraham Lincoln. Indeed, one contemporary described Johnson as ...

On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from his assassin’s wounds. ... Booth’s full plot included killing Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, ...

Johnson was put on his ticket -- that's how Johnson ends up as vice president," said Stewart. Video Weeks after the election of 1864, newly elected President Lincoln is assassinated.

The president traveled the country, fanning racial animus. He viewed the Congress with disdain. He also tried to undo some of the most important achievements of his predecessor, using executive power.

In return, the Republican Lincoln rewarded Johnson by reaching across party lines to pick him as vice-president for the 1864 election. Lincoln died from an assassin's bullet just six weeks after ...

To ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice-President of the United States. Mr. JOHNSON requested that the ceremony take place at his rooms at the Kirkwood House, in this city, at 10 o'clock in the morning.

On Sept. 24, 2019, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. A little more than a month later, after a number of witnesses testified before ...

Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition in the House and the Senate, and he stood in the way of a Reconstruction that would have done more to help former slaves. How post-Civil War ...

Former President Andrew Johnson's home in Greeneville, Tenn., has seen a recent surge in visitors, similar to a spike observed after former President Bill Clinton was impeached in the late 1990s.