ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice-President of the United States ... WASHINGTON CITY, April 15, 1865. SIR: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, was shot by an assassin last evening at Ford's ...

According to the rules of presidential succession in 1865, only Vice President Johnson, and not Seward or Grant, was in line to replace Lincoln if he died. If Johnson had died, an acting president ...

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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 ...

And these legislators believed Johnson was too tolerant of abuses toward freed slaves. After he took over as the 17th president in April 1865, Johnson began giving amnesty to former Confederates ...

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 ...

On April 14, 1865, Booth, 26, an actor ... Booth changed the plan to a simultaneous assassination of Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward," the site ...

Immediately upon the death of the President, notice was given to Vice-President Johnson, who happened to ... was first reported in The Age in June 1865.

In April 1865, assassination vaulted Johnson into ... Johnson told the governor of Missouri. On Aug. 27, 1866, President Johnson embarked on an unprecedented 18-day speaking tour in an attempt ...

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 ...