On April 15, 1865, Vice-President Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the seventeenth President of the United States, after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Johnson became the first ...

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President by federal Judge Sarah T. Hughes on Air Force One on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He's flanked by ...

Joe Biden, sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declared "democracy has prevailed" as he used his inaugural address to call for unity in a nation suffering from "deep ...

President Donald Trump has been officially sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington D.C. Monday. During the event, many well-known political and ...

Donald Trump did not attend his successor’s inauguration, becoming the first president to choose to skip it since Andrew Johnson in 1869.

Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Former President Donald Trump has left the White House for Palm Beach, Florida.

Before he was impeached, President Andrew Johnson considered himself a champion of the common man — but only when those common men were white.

When President Andrew Johnson skipped his successor's inauguration in 1869, he didn't announce it on Twitter.

Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh, North Carolina. At 14, he was indentured to a tailor but ran away, ending up in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he caught the eye of Eliza McCardle.

Andrew Johnson's Failed Presidency Echoes in Trump's White House The disgraced Johnson, like Trump, also declined to attend his successor's inauguration ceremony.

Harvard University professor Annette Gordon-Reed talked about the legacy of Andrew Johnson, the nation's 17th president who took office following Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865. Professor ...