The Biography of Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson was born on December 1808. He was the seventeenth president of the United States. Johnson had been born into extreme poverty and had no perfunctory education. Yet with determination and hard work, he had risen rapidly through and through politics, to state government and on to national office. He married Eliza McCardle, who was a school-teacher and was a big part of Johnsons education, she helped him learn how to write and do arithmetic. He had three sons and two daughters.Andrew Johnson was a democratic and had served in the Senate from 1857- 1862. In the early months of the Civil War, Johnson was agonistic to flee his own state to distract arrest. When federal troops conquered Nashville, he resigned his Senate seat in work 1862 to read President Lincolns appointment as military regulator of Tennessee. He served as vice president for a month in 1865, and as president for the balance of Lincolns terms.In January 1875, Johnson win back his former Senate seat after a struggle that forced the Tennessee legislature through 56 separate ballots. Johnson took his Senate deposition before the analogous body that only seven years earlier had failed by a single vote to remove him from the White House on March 5, 1875. During the 19 day Senate special session, he delivered a political tumultuousness in Louisiana and then returned to Tennessee, where he died four months later on July 31, 1875. He suffered from a stroke. Johnson was buried on a hilltop in Greenville, wrapped in a 37 star flag with a copy of the Constitution under his head.