President Andrew Johnson. CBS News "He was something politically that really wasn't even supposed to exist," said Ranger Burke Greear, at the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greeneville ...

Andrew Johnson’s ratings have plummeted like a rock. In a recent 2010 Siena College survey, Johnson was called the worst president in history. A 2011 survey from a British academic institute ...

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 ...

Today marks the anniversary of the passing of Andrew Johnson, perhaps the most-criticized president in American history. Johnson died from a stroke on July 31, 1875 while visiting his daughter in ...

So I’ll tell you the trivia: Andrew Johnson was impeached because he fired a disloyal member of his cabinet (disloyal in the sense that he was refusing to carry out the president’s policies ...

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.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 1963 (UPI) - President Lyndon B. Johnson is the first southerner to hold that office since Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who also succeeded an assassinated president.

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Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved ...

On March 4, 1865, at the second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson made a speech in the Senate chambers before being sworn in as the 16th Vice-President of the United States.

President Andrew Johnson, seen in this Harper’s Weekly political cartoon of April 14, 1866, vetoed two Freedmen’s Bureau bills that year, the second of which was overrode by Congress in July.

The historic site said the most significant damage was to the flagpole near the top of Signal Hill, where Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, and his family are buried. The flagpole’s damage ...