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Andrew Johnson was not a candidate for President in 1868, when his succession of Lincoln's term was ending. He returned to Tennessee and ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate in 1868 and for the US House in 1872. He was elected a Senator in 1874, only to die a year later.

At the time of his succession, there was no law enabling selection of a replacement Vice President. That process was not implemented until the 25th Amendment a century later in 1967.

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