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.

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.

President Trump will not — becoming the first president to skip his successor’s inauguration since Andrew Johnson in the 1800s. The 45th president plans to depart the White House at 8 a.m. en ...

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. News Sports Business Go Knoxville Shopper News Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

U.S. President Andrew Johnson’s official portrait, by Eliphalet Andrews. The Republicans soon learned that they were mistaken. Through bold assertion of executive authority, ...