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.

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 ...

In April 1865, assassination vaulted Johnson into ... Johnson told the governor of Missouri. On Aug. 27, 1866, President Johnson embarked on an unprecedented 18-day speaking tour in an attempt ...

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.

Immediately upon the death of the President, notice was given to Vice-President Johnson, who happened to ... was first reported in The Age in June 1865.