Andrew Johnson

Congress made Andrew Johnson a slave to thier every need. They kept it under the table because they used naked photos to blackmail him. He was not only used for personal tasks but he was also sexually assulted by more than one male on Congress.

Here's 13 of Andrew Johnson's quotes.

1. "Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."

2. "I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."

3. "I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me."

4. "I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."

5. "If I am a shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."

6. "If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."

7. "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

8. "Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."

9. "Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. The broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."

10. "Slavery exists. It is back in the South and white in the north."

11. " The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."

12. "There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."

13. "Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs."

As President, Johnson "passed" no laws, although he did sign several into law after Congress forwarded them to him.

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Andrew Johnson was elected presidet but never elected twice.

Type your answer here... he died of a massive hart attack

The House impeached the President, but the Senate failed to remove him. The House of Representatives voted to impeach Johnson but the Senate failed----by only one vote----to win the two-thirds majority necessary in the Senate to remove Johnson from office!

Johnson's Reconstruction program offered general amnesty to all who would take an oath of future loyalty. The plan, however, called for high-ranking Confederate officials or any wealthy white Southerner to petition the president personally for individual pardons. Raised in poverty in North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, Johnson, a War Democrat, resented the Southern planter aristocracy, and relished the idea of them begging him for pardons.

Abraham Lincoln volunteered in the Illinois Militia and was elected Captain during the Black Hawk War. He never saw combat and served only around three months, from April 21, 1832 until July 10, 1832.

Three of Johnson's policies for rebuilding the nation after the war were that the job of reconstruction was the job of the president, not Congress, the states had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, and that they accept the supreme power of the federal government.

Grover Cleveland was the U.S. President both before (March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1889) and after (March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1897) Benjamin Harrison. Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd U.S. President, and Grover Cleveland is considered the 22nd and 24th President.

Johnson had no formal education whatsoever. His father died and his mother had no money, so Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor while still a boy. Various friends and his wife helped him learn to read after he was an adult.

He vetoed the freedmans bureau and the civil rights act of 1868

Johnson was acquitted by the Senate of the impeachment charges brougth forth by the House. He did not have to leave office and so served out his full term. ( Impeachment is only the first step in removing the President. If a President is impeached, the Senate holds a trial and 2/3 of the senators must vote for conviction in order to remove him from office. )

Not all that great. He granted pardons to virtually all ex-Confederates, thus making impossible any divisive treason trials of men like Lee, but there was little appetite for this anyway. Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867, but this was mainly the work of Secretary of State Seward, who was appointed by Lincoln, not Johnson. Johnson's record was mostly negative, getting into bitter quarrels with Congress over Reconstruction policy, and losing on virtually every disputed point.

Andrew Johnson served shy of one term which is 4 years. (1865-1869). He took office as Vice President on March 4, becoming President after Lincoln's death on April 15, the morning after Lincoln was shot.
The 17th President of the United States was Andrew Johnson from April 15, 1865 to March 4, 1869

Legend says that he had a parrot which screeched obscenities at his funeral.

He wrote a letter to his adopted son, Andrew, in which he inquired about his dog,

and stated his own love of dogs and their benefits to man, so he presumably kept

dogs at his home, but no particular one was ever given mention.

Of course, he valued his horses, but they, being necessities were not regarded as pets. WHAT A PUSSY

It was mainly because he fired Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, which violated the Tenure of Office Act.

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Andrew Johnson's wife, Eliza McCardle Johnson, was born on October 4, 1810 in Telford, Tennessee, and died on January 15, 1876 in Greeneville, Tennessee - surviving her husband by just six months.

After the Civil War, the former Confederate states were divided into military districts under the First Reconstruction Act of 1867. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, naturally, chose the generals in charge of the various districts and was in a crucial position for how to carry out Reconstruction policies. Because Stanton and President Andrew Johnson had differing views on how to carry out the Reconstruction Act(s)--Stanton approving the Congressional means of restoring the nation, while Johnson followed his own route--some personal and professional animosity developed between the two. Furthermore, Johnson sought to establish himself and the office of executive as supreme over the legislature after their many quarrels over Reconstruction. Johnson decided to defy the Tenure of Office Act, which required the Senate's approval to remove government officials including the president's cabinet--an act which limited the president's power by Congress. Ultimately it was Stanton who, because of his differences in political opinion, his position as Secretary for the Department of War, and as a means by which Johnson could assert his authority, was fired in 1867. An act which would lead to the United States' first ever presidential impeachment.

Johnson lived most of adult life in Greeneville, Tennessee. His home and tailor shop are still there and open to visitors. That is also where he was buried.

• Andrew Johnson tried to carry out Lincoln's plan for reconstruction , get the Southern states back into the union and deal with the freed slaves. He was faced with conflicts everywhere- from Congress which wanted to punish the South and from the Southerner who hated the union troops and the idea of former slave voting and running the country. He ended up fighting everyone, issuing many vetoes which were overturned. He fired the Secretary of War, who refused to leave.
• Alaska was purchased from Russia.
• He was impeached and had to fight for his job in a long trial.