The Democratic Pretence of Supporting President Johnson. ... Oct. 17, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 17, 1865, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

President JOHNSON'S reply to the deputation of Southerners, which we published in full yesterday morning, gives a very clear indication of the spirit and temper which he brings to the task of ...

Back in 1865, Booth had convinced George Atzerodt, an acquaintance, to kill Johnson by setting a trap at the Kirkwood House hotel where the vice president lived.

But Vice President Johnson would not resign and would soon occupy the high office for himself. On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C.

On this day in 1865, President Andrew Johnson signed an executive order upholding the convictions of Confederate sympathizers who had conspired to assassinate his predecessor in office, Abraham ...

It’s been 152 years since Andrew Johnson decided not to attend the swearing-in of Ulysses S. Grant. Now President Trump will do the same to President-elect Joe Biden.

A full-throated white supremacist and rabble-rousing populist, Johnson—who came to power in 1865 after President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination—offended friends and foes alike with his ...

The President's right to free speech should not be simply dismissed out of hand. After Lincoln's assassination in 1865, Vice President Andrew Johnson became President. Over the next three years ...

They are now forever bound, the only two American presidents to be impeached and face the wrath of a Republican Congress and a Senate trial. But, after that, precious few parallels exist between An… ...

Johnson was a “vain, vulgar, and vindictive” president. A Democrat from Tennessee, he became president upon Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at the end of the Civil War in 1865.

When Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, Vice President Johnson became president and soon after clashed with some members of Congress critical of his policies.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed presents a biography of the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson (1865-1869). A Southern Democrat who remained aligned with the ...