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saving two men from drowning. In December 1812, Jacob Johnson saved two men from drowning in a pond near Raleigh. He never recovered completely from the cold water and the effort and died the next month at the age of 33, when his son Andrew was just four.
Raleigh, NC. Johnson was born in a log cabin in Raleigh, NC on December 29, 1808.
| Who was Andrew Johnson and his brother indentured to in 1823 as apprenticed tailors? | Andrew Johnson
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James Shelby. The two boys ran away from Shelby two years after their mother indentured them to him. They ended up seeking shelter in Carthage, NC.
| Johnson and Eliza McCardle were married by a distant relative to a future president. What was this president's name? | Andrew Johnson
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Abraham Lincoln. Mordecai Lincoln married the couple on May 17, 1827 in Greeneville, TN.
| While a Tennessee state senator, Johnson attempted to revive a proposal to create a new state from the mountain regions of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. This new state was to be named after which famous American? | Andrew Johnson
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Benjamin Franklin. The original movement to create the state of Frankland started in 1784 but the move was not recognized by the US government or the state of North Carolina, who owned the land. The organizers of the state hoped to get Benjamin Franklin's support for Frankland to become the 14th state. He declined to support the movement.
| While Johnson served as military governor of Tennessee during the Civil War, what military rank did he carry? | Andrew Johnson
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brigadier general. Johnson served as military governor of Tennessee from 1862 to 1864.
| Who did Johnson replace as Abraham Lincoln's vice-president? | Andrew Johnson
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Hannibal Hamlin. Hamlin wanted a second term as Lincoln's vice-president but Lincoln convinced the party to replace Hamlin with Johnson who, as a pro-Southern Democrat would balance the ticket.
| On the night of April 14, 1865, which of the Lincoln conspirators was assigned the duty of killing Vice-President Johnson? | Andrew Johnson
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George Atzerodt. Atzerodt was assigned the task of killing Johnson, while he was staying at the Kirkwood Hotel. However, Atzerodt lost his nerve and he ended up drinking the night away in a bar. Atzerodt would hang a few months later for his part in the conspiracy, at the same time as Lewis Payne, Mary Suratt and David Herold.
| Who was the US Chief Justice that presided over Johnson's impeachment trial in the senate? | Andrew Johnson
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Salmon P. Chase. Chase served as chief justice from 1864 to 1873. He was replaced on the court by Morrison Waite.
| How many Republican senators voted with the Democrats to keep Johnson from being removed from office? | Andrew Johnson
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7. The seven Republican senators were William Fessenden (ME), Joseph Fowler (TN), James Grimes (Iowa), John Henderson (MO), Edmund Ross (KS), Lyman Trumbull (IL) and Peter Van Winkle (WV). Three articles of impeachment were voted on, with the vote each time being 35-19 for impeachment, one vote away from the 2/3 majority needed to remove Johnson from office.
| The Tenure of Office Act was passed by congress in 1867. This act forbid the president from dismissing certain public officials without the approval of congress. Johnson challenged this act when he dismissed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and congress impeached Johnson because of his attempt. In what year did congress finally repeal the Tenure of Office Act? | Andrew Johnson
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1887. Congress repealed the Tenure of Office Act in 1887, at the urging of President Grover Cleveland. The US Supreme Court, in the case of Myers vs US in 1926, ruled that the Tenure of Office Act was unconstitutional.
| What political office did Johnson hold after leaving the presidency in 1869? | Andrew Johnson
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US Senator. The Tennessee State Legislature sent Johnson back to the US Senate in 1875, electing him to the office on the 55th ballot.
stroke. Johnson suffered a stroke on July 28th while talking to his granddaughter. He would suffer a second stroke the next day and would die two days later.
The Tenure of Office Act. This law prevented Johnson from dismissing Cabinet secretaries without the approval of the Senate - the logic being that the Senate had to approve the secretary's appointment. In reality, it was to ensure that the Radical Republican Edwin Stanton stayed on a Secretary of War. The Tenure of Office Act was repealed in 1887 and declared unconstitutional in 1926 in Meyers v. United States.
Lorenzo Thomas. General Thomas was Adjutant-General of the Army. Johnson asked for Stanton's resignation while Congress was in recess. Stanton refused and so Johnson fired him and named Ulysses. S. Grant as interim Secretary. The Senate returned and voted 35-16 (these numbers will be important later) to keep Stanton under the Tenure Act. Johnson appointed Thomas in hopes of forcing a judicial review of the Tenure Act.
126-47. The House had tried to impeach Johnson a few times before this, but those attempts had always failed. His biggest "crime" before the Tenure of Office Act was that he disagreed with Congress, so when a valid reason to impeach him came up, it was passed with an overwhelming majority.
Chief Justice Salmon Chase. Although the President of the Senate presides over all other impeachment trials, the Constitution states that the Chief Justice presides over the trial of a president. Why? To avoid a major conflict of interest - The President of the Senate is also the Vice-President.
Denying the validity of the laws passed by the 39th Congress. This charge was all about the XIVth Amendment. Johnson opposed this amendment, and when the Southern states that Johnson had readmitted to the US voted against it, it died . . . but did it? The Radical Republicans claimed that those states had not yet re-entered the Union, therefore they did not have voting rights. Thus by Congress' calculation, the Amendment had the necessary 3/4 votes of the states to pass AND that Johnson exceeded his authority in readmitting the former Confederate States. Johnson did not hide his feelings on this issue.
| President Clinton is famous for arguing the meaning of the word "is" during his impeachment process. What word held a similar ambiguity during Johnson's impeachment? | The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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term. The Tenure of Office Act protected Stanton for the term that the Senate approved him for. This would allow Cabinet member to be replaced when a new President was elected. However, verbage in the Constitution implied that President Lincoln's term ended when he died and so President Johnson's presidency was a new term - therefore Stanton was not protected by the Act. This interpretation by some of the Senators had the Radical Republicans questioning the certainy of the conviction before the vote.
The spectators. Chief Justice Chase admonished the spectators to be silent during the voting. Anyone creating a disturbance would be arrested immediately.
Senator Ross of Kansas. Ross was appointed in 1866 to replace a senator who had committed suicide. He broke with the Republican Party and voted for acquittal. What is less known is that there were six other Republicans that had previously announced that they would vote for acquittal (and did) and four other Republicans would have voted for acquittal if Ross had not.
| Abraham Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson as Military Governor of Tennessee on March 4, 1862 despite the fact that Johnson was a Senator from Tennessee when it seceded as a Confederate state. Why did Lincoln make such a controversial appointment as Johnson to hold this position? | Andrew Johnson
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Despite his home state’s secession, Johnson was a loyal and staunch Unionist.. Johnson was the only Senator from a seceding state that remained loyal to the Union and did not join the Confederate cause.
| How many years of formal education did Andrew Johnson complete as a child? | Andrew Johnson
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0. Andrew Johnson never attended school and was illiterate until the age of 18. It was his young new bride, Eliza McCardle that taught him how to read, write, and count.
| Andrew Johnson was brought up on impeachment charges in 1867 by the U.S. Congress for violating which legislative act? | Andrew Johnson
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Tenure of Office Act. President Johnson challenged the constitutionality of the Tenure of Office Act, which Congress had passed over his veto, by firing his Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. As a result of his actions, much like Bill Clinton’s impeachment, Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives but was later acquitted by the Senate.
| While he was President, Andrew Johnson’s son-in-law was elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee. What was his name? | Andrew Johnson
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David T. Patterson. David T Patterson was a lawyer from Greenville, Tennessee and a strong supporter of Johnson’s. Before marrying Martha Johnson in 1855, father-in-law-to-be Andrew had helped his good friend Patterson obtain a judgeship in East Tennessee.
| President Johnson enjoyed watching baseball games on the White Lot, which is now a portion of what is called the Ellipse. What did Johnson do prior to an inter-city match among the Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Athletics, and Brooklyn Atlantics? | Andrew Johnson
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He gave government employees and clerks time off to watch the match.. Not only did Johnson give the federal employees the time off, he also had plush straight-backed chairs set up along the first base line for them to watch the games. He invited the teams up to the White House after the match.
| Within the first year of his Presidency, Andrew Johnson had refused all pleas for mercy from Henry Wirz, who was hanged from the gallows that were erected in the shadows of the Capitol Building. Who was Henry Wirz and what was he executed for? | Andrew Johnson
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He was the commander of the Confederate prison camp Andersonville where Union soldiers were held under poor conditions during the Civil War.. Henry Wirz was a Captain in the Confederate Army and was appointed as Commandant of Camp Sumpter, more commonly known as Andersonville. About 45,000 Union soldiers were imprisoned there and nearly a third of them had died from starvation and diseases from the unsanitary conditions of the camp. The inhumane conditions have been compared to Hitler’s Nazi death camps of WWII.
| Andrew Johnson was regarded by many to have been an embarrassment at the Inauguration of 1865. What was the reason for this perception? | Andrew Johnson
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He was noticeably drunk and rambled on during his speech.. It is alleged that Johnson had drank a significant amount of whiskey beforehand in order to “fortify himself from a recent illness."
| Andrew Johnson never had a Vice-President, so if the Senate had convicted and removed him from the Presidency as a result of his impeachment charges, who would have become the new President? | Andrew Johnson
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Benjamin Wade, President pro tempore of the Senate. There is much speculation that the Radical Republicans in the Senate did not remove Johnson from office because the elevation of Wade, a Republican, to the Presidency would only later complicate the nomination and election of General U.S. Grant in the coming election, thus Johnson was acquitted instead.
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