Vice President: None Secretary of State: William H. Seward Secretary of the Treasury: Hugh McCulloch Secretary of War: Edwin M. Stanton; John M. Schofield (from June 1868)
Attorney General: James Speed; Henry Stan-bery (from 1866); William M. Evarts (from July 1868)
Postmaster General: William Dennison;
Alexander W. Randall (from 1866)
Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles Secretary of the Interior: John P. Usher; James Harlan (from May 1865); Orville H. Browning (from September 1866)
State Admitted: Nebraska (1867)
Father: Jacob Johnson (1778-1812)
Mother: Mary McDonough Johnson (1783-1856)
Wife: Eliza McCardle (1810-1876)
Marriage: May 17, 1827
Children: Martha (1828-1901); Charles (1830-1863); Mary (1832-1883); Robert (1834-1869); Andrew (1852-1879)
Andrew Johnson had no formal education.
Under Johnson’s presidency, Alexander Gardner, Confederate commander of the prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged. Johnson refused all requests for mercy.
He believed strongly that African Americans were inferior to whites and rhetorically asked, “Who believes for one instant that Mr. Jefferson, when he penned [the Declaration of Independence], had the negro population in his mind?”
He was the first president to be impeached; he was acquitted in the Senate by only one vote.
He was the only former president to be elected to the United States Senate.
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