Arthur or Millard Fillmore) would be complete without our 17th president, Andrew Johnson. His presidency would end in disgrace, but in 1864, when Republican President Abraham Lincoln was running ...

Today marks the birthday of perhaps the most-maligned president in American history. But was Andrew Johnson really that bad, or just the target of some second-guessing historians? 800px-Andew ...

The year was 1869, and the president was Andrew Johnson, who detested incoming President Ulysses S. Grant. The feeling was mutual. Grant refused to ride in the same carriage with Johnson to the ...

Warning, a major attack of the history nerd is coming: Being smart MinnPost readers, I’m guessing that most of you could answer the trivia question: Who were the only two presidents to be impeached?

Andrew Johnson considered himself a champion of the common man — but only when those common men were white. The 17th president of the United States was a common man himself. Born into poverty ...

Yesterday morning Attorney-General SPEED waited upon Hon. ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice-President of the United States, and officially informed him of the sudden and unexpected decease of President LINCOLN ...

On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Days later ...

from Millard Fillmore (the 13th president) to Barack Obama (the 44th). Of these 17, the most divisive figure, without question, was Andrew Johnson. To say his brief Sept. 7, 1866, stop in ...

We know that. We also know that no president has ever been removed from office after it was handed over to the Senate, but Andrew Johnson, President Johnson came close. He came the closest.

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Andrew Johnson was the seventeenth President of the United States. He is one of the least known presidents except for the fact that Congress tried to Impeach him and really to understand the man ...