Andrew Johnson
1808 – 1875 American 17th President of the United States
Seventeenth U.S. president and first to be impeached.
- Religion
- No formal denomination
- Affiliations
- Democratic Party (elected on National Union ticket); a documented Freemason (Greeneville Lodge, Tennessee).
Johnson became president after Lincoln's assassination and clashed bitterly with Congress over Reconstruction. He was impeached in 1868 and survived removal by one Senate vote. His term saw the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867.
Connections
- successor of Abraham Lincoln — Succeeded by his vice president after assassination.