- Date:
- 1865
- Original Format:
- Photographic Print
- Item#:
- MES04436
- Photographer:
- Mathew Brady
Andrew Johnson (1808-1875)
Johnson became the seventeenth President of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first president to be impeached. Johnson had worked his way up from alderman, and then mayor of Greenville, to assemblyman, U.S. congressman, and eventually governor of Tennessee and U.S. senator. He was the only senator from a seceding state to remain in Washington to back the Union.