Johnson, Andrew
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...JOHNSON, ANDREW 1808 75, 17th President of the United States (1865 69), b...father died when Johnson was 3, and...Tennessee, and Andrew soon had his...Greeneville, state representative...President. His Reconstruction program (and he insisted that Reconstruction was an executive...restored civil government in the ex...veto the First Reconstruction Act and the...nomination. In 1875, on his third...1967. See biography by R. W...