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 ...

Minneapolis City Council Member Andrew Johnson will step down Tuesday, and his successor, Aurin Chowdhury, will take over at that time. The unusual transition — an early departure and swearing ...

When President Andrew Johnson skipped his successor's inauguration in 1869, ... he will become the first U.S. president since Johnson in 1869 to skip his successor's swearing-in ceremony.

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.

With President Trump’s announcement Friday that he will forgo attending President-elect Joe Biden’s swearing-in on Jan. 20, ... “Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s qualities of greatness.

Andrew Johnson's Failed Presidency Echoes in Trump's White House The disgraced Johnson, like Trump, also declined to attend his successor's inauguration ceremony.