Following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, Vice-President Andrew Johnson succeeded the presidency becoming the 17th President of the United States, serving from April 15, 1865 to March 3, 1869. He had no Vice President during his tenure in office.
Millard Fillmore (born January 7, 1800 in Summerhill, New York; died March 8, 1874 in Buffalo, New York) succeeded George M. Dallas as the twelfth Vice-President of the United States, serving between March 4, 1849 and July 9, 1850.
Following the death of Zachary Taylor of gastroenteritis on July 9, 1950, there was a vacancy in the office of vice-President until March 4, 1853.
John C. Breckinridge (born January 16, 1821 in Lexington, Kentucky; died May 17, 1875 in Lexington, Kentucky) succeeded William R. King as the fourteenth Vice-President of the United States, serving between March 4, 1857 and March 4, 1861, including the whole of 1860.
Hannibal Hamlin (born August 27, 1809 in Paris, Maine; died July 4, 1891 in Bangor, Maine) served as the fifteenth Vice-President of the United States, serving between March 4, 1861 and March 4, 1865, including the whole of 1864.
Andrew Johnson (born December 29, 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina; died July 31, 1875 in Elizabethton, Tennessee) succeeded Hannibal Hamlin as the sixteenth Vice-President of the United States, serving between April 15, 1865 and March 4, 1869, including the whole of 1866.
John C. Breckinridge was the Vice President under President James Buchanan from 1857-1861.
Hannibal Hamlin from Maine was the US vice-president from March 4,1861 until March 4,1865.
Hannibal Hamlin
Andrew Johnson was then consequently the vice president, and after that, when Lincoln was assassinated, we was the president himself.
Andrew was a Democrat before and after he ran for Vice-president with Lincoln as a Republican in 1864.
Andrew Johnson was then consequently the vice president, and after that, when Lincoln was assassinated, we was the president himself.
The Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1864 presidential elections was George Pendelton. He was the running mate of the Party's presidential nominee George B. McClellan.
George H. Pendleton was General George McClellan's running mate on the Democratic ticket of 1864.
Johnson ran successfully for vice-president with Lincoln heading the ticket in 1864. He was never nominated for president.
in the 1860 election it was Hannibal Hamlin in the 1864 election it was Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson became president after Lincolns assassination
Dallas, Texas was named for George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864) from PA who was Polk's vice-president.
Hannibal Hamlin was Lincoln's first term Vice President replaced in 1864 by Andrew Johnson. So in fact he had two VP's during the Civil War.
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There have been two vice-presidents Johnson, about 100 years apart.Andrew Johnson, elected in 1864 and Lyndon Johnsonelected in 1960. Oddly, they each became President due to the assassination of the president.
Andrew Johnson was Military Governor of Tennessee from 1862 to 1864 when Lincoln chose him to be the Vice President on his reelection ticket. From Lincoln's Second Inauguration until Lincoln's Assassination (both in 1865), Andrew Johnson served as Vice President. Upon Lincoln's Assassination, he ascended to the Presidency.