After Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in the election of 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860. Lincoln took his oath of office on March 4, 1861. Prior to his inauguration, other Southern states also seceded. These were the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. later after the Battle of Fort Sumter, four other Southern states seceded. These were Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
Lincoln was President. Nevada became a state in 1864, during the Civil War.
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Andrew Johnson was the 17th President. He was the vice-president under Lincoln and became President after Lincoln was killed.
Before Johnson was Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was Lincoln's vice-president.
The Confederacy
When Lincoln died, his Vice-President, Andrew Johnson became President.
The 7 states of the south that threatened to secede if Lincoln became President.
Yes, Andrew Johnson became President of the United States. Hannibal Hamlin did not.
Lincoln served from 1861 to 1865; Johnston from 1865 to 1869. Grant took office in 1869. (The war ended in 1865.)
When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Vice President Andrew Johnson became the new US President, leaving the post of Vice President vacant. It was not filled until the next election when Ulysses S. Grant became President, and Schuyler Colfax became the 17th US VIce President.
He became the 16th president of the united states of America.
New Mexico became a state in 1912. The president of the United States at that time was William Howard Taft.