Andrew Johnson was never elected President. He was elected Vice-President under Abraham Lincoln, and ascended to the presidency due to Lincoln's assassination in April 1865. He was 56 years old when he became US President.
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When Andrew Johnson took the Oath of Office during Easter weekend of 1865, he was 56 years of age.
He was 56 years old when he was elected president.
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Andrew Johnson
He was 61 when elected and just a few day short of 62 when he took office.
He had his 62nd birthday on March 15, 1829, after being sworn in as President on March 4/
Andrew Johnson married to Eliza McCardle @ the age of 18!! Eliza was 16 at the time!!
Andrew Johnson made his living as a tailor before he got into government.
Andrew Johnson never attended school. He was apprenticed to a tailor at an early age and not allowed to go to school.
Andrew Johnson married Eliza McCardle Johnson at the age of 19. He never attended any type of school; he credited his wife with teaching him to read and write.
Born in 1908, LBJ was 55 when he took over for the assassinated President Kennedy in 1963 and 56 when elected on his own in 1964. The strain of being President during Vietnam took a great toll however, as he declined to run in 1968 and died in January, 1973 at the age of 64.