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 ...

The people of this State are asked to elect the Democratic ticket, because the Democratic party will support President JOHNSON. They are referred to the resolutions passed at Albany for the proof.

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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 ...

He had the unfortunate task of succeeding Abraham Lincoln after the 16th president’s assassination ... at his own inauguration in 1865. (Another theory was that Johnson was ill, since he ...

On the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, Johnson became the nation ... Congress armed with enough votes to override the president. Much to Johnson’s dismay, a series of new laws enacted ...

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 ...

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 nation’s 17th president who took office following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. Professor Gordon-Reed called Johnson the president of “lost opportunities” because of his ...

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 ...

This article supplements Reconstruction, a Slate Academy. To learn more and to enroll, visit Slate.com/Reconstruction. Adapted from Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke ...