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 Grew up in poverty
 Apprenticed to a tailor for several
years before running away
 Tried to teach himself to read and
write
 Married Eliza McCardle at age
seventeen
 She was highly educated
 Held many positions
 Mayor, Senate,
Governor, Chairman,
ect.
 Only Southern senator
who refused to join the
Confederacy
 He made it clear that he was fighting for the Union
and not the abolition of slavery.
 “I believe slaves should be in subordination and I will
live and die so believing.”
 “I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this
Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is.”
 Later viewed that slaves were more productive as free
men.
 Elected Vice President
 On inauguration day Johnson
was drunk while he made his
speech to Congress
 Yeoman Democrats
 Lost support within the Republican Party
 Impeachment threat
 Republican > Democrats
Republican Ticket
Presidential candidate:
VP candidate:
ABRAHAM
LINCOLN,
President
ANDREW
JOHNSON,
Tennessee
Governor
Popular votes:
2,220,846 (55.1%)
Electoral votes:
Democratic Ticket
212
Presidential candidate:
George
McClellan,
Union Army
General
VP candidate:
George
Pendleton, Ohio
Congressman
Popular votes:
Electoral votes:
1,809,445
(44.9%)
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www.wisconsinhistory.org
 Purchase of Alaska
 US domestic affairs.
 Little impact on International scene
 Reconstruction
 Black voting allowance
 William H. Seward
 Secretary of State
 Hugh McCulloch
 Secretary of the Treasury
 Secretary of War
 John M. Schofield
 http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/andrew
johnson
 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjohnsonA.
htm
 http://millercenter.org/president/johnson/essays/biog
raphy/2 second paragraph