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  Andrew Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnson was born on December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson and Mary McDonough.
Johnson served as an alderman in Greeneville from 1828 to 1830 and mayor of Greeneville from 1830 to 1833.
Johnson was elected governor of Tennessee, serving from 1853 to 1857, and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from October 8, 1857 to March 4, 1862.
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 Andrew Johnson - MSN Encarta
Johnson’s impeachment was the result of a struggle to preserve the powers of the presidency in the face of attacks by a determined Congress of the United States.
Even though Johnson contributed materially to his own difficulties, he must be respected for his staunch defense of the rights reserved to the president by the Constitution of the United States.
Johnson then served in the Tennessee house of representatives from 1835 to 1837 and from 1839 to 1843, when he was elected to the state senate.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563281/Johnson_Andrew.html   (808 words)

  
 Andrew Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Johnson was born on December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina, the son of Jacob and Mary (Polly) McDonough Johnson.
Johnson's speech, coming from a southern man, thrilled the popular heart; but his popularity in the north was offset by the virulence with which he was assailed in the south.
Johnson, in his letter of acceptance, virtually disclaimed any departure from his principles as a Democrat, but placed his acceptance upon the ground of "the higher duty of first preserving the government." He accepted the emancipation proclamation as a war measure, to be subsequently ratified by constitutional amendment.
www.famousamericans.net /andrewjohnson   (5120 words)

  
 President Andrew Johnson
Johnson was the first President to be impeached, although he was not convicted.
Andrew Johnson was born in a log cabin in Casso's Inn in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Johnson's Presidency was dominated by the attempt to reintegrate the South into the Union.
www.multied.com /Bio/presidents/johnson.html   (592 words)

  
 Andrew Johnson
Johnson was one of the most unpopular Presidents But the American people realized during his lifetime that he had been treated unjustly Many historians feel that his acquittal in the impeachment trial saved the presidency from being weakened, with the President a more figurehead.
In 1843 Johnson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Johnson served as an alderman for two years and then, at the age of twenty one, he received the highest honor that the townpeople could award him with by electing the young man by electing him mayor of the town.
volweb.utk.edu /Schools/sullivan/sullms/johnson.htm   (2067 words)

  
 Eliza McCardle Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elizabeth McCardle Johnson, wife of President Andrew Johnson.
Eliza McCardle Johnson (October 4, 1810 – January 15, 1876) was the wife of Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the USA.
Due to her poor health she was not able to serve as First Lady, so their daughters Martha Johnson Patterson, and Mary Johnson Stover stepped in.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eliza_McCardle_Johnson   (163 words)

  
 American President
When Johnson reached the White House, First Lady Eliza Johnson was a semi-invalid suffering from tuberculosis during her husband's term in office.
In the South, Johnson was deemed a traitor; his property was confiscated and his wife and two daughters were driven from the state.
It quickly became clear that Johnson would block efforts to force Southern states to guarantee full equality for fls, and the stage was set for a showdown with congressional Republicans, who viewed fl voting rights as crucial to their power base in the South.
www.americanpresident.org /history/andrewjohnson   (1247 words)

  
 Andrew Johnson
Johnson was better educated than her husband and used her education to improve his reading and writing skills.
Johnson's star continued to rise, and his term as governor of Tennessee provided such benefits to the state as a public school system and a state library.
Johnson requested that his body be wrapped in an American flag and laid on a copy of the Constitution.
statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/bio/public/johnson.htm   (2056 words)

  
 Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for American President Andrew Johnson, 1808-1875   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eliza had received an unusually thorough education for a tradesman's daughter, and tutored her husband, Johnson proving an apt pupil who was soon reading and writing fluently and even eloquently as well as being adroit with mathematics.
Johnson insisted on Lincoln's outline for lenient handling of the south, reunification of the states, and made few provisions for freed slave, who were suddenly jobless, homeless, and uneducated.
Eliza Johnson finally succumbed to tuberculosis and died 6 months after her husband, who had been buried with his well worn and treasured copy of the United States Constitution.
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 Biographies of : ELIZA McCARDLE JOHNSON
Eliza Johnson was at home in Tennessee when word came of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Eliza was known as a staunch supporter of her husband.
Johnson was ultimately acquitted and his devoted wife insisted that she had known all along that her husband would be proven innocent.
www.multied.com /Bio/ladies/em_johnson.html   (147 words)

  
 Johnson and Kendall Families
Sarah Jane Johnson was born on Dec. 17, 1832 and married William Turner in New Albany on Oct. 9, 1859.
Eliza E. Smith was 60 years old and more than 50 friends and relatives spent the day with her.
Her son, F. Johnson of Jeffersonville, Samuel Trulock and family and Perry Kendall and family of near Austin and Samuel Hall and family of Lexington were among the number present.
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 The Crypt: History & Genealogy of Camden & Charlton Counties, Georgia
William Tomlinson and Eliza Johnson became parents to Idella "Delia", born on January 1, 1878; John Jackson, born on January 12, 1874; Robert Gay, born on September 21, 1875; King David, born on April 26, 1883; Levin W., born on March 12, 1880; and Sylvanius, born on June 26, 1887.
Eliza Johnson Tomlinson died December 3, 1930, and is interred with William in the Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.
William Tomlinson and Eliza Johnson's unmarried son Sylvanius, born on June 26, 1887, died on September 5, 1918, and is buried in the Pellicer Creek Cemetery in St. Johns County.
www.camdencounty.org /ebooks/p_102.html   (1552 words)

  
 First Ladies' Biographical Information
Eliza Johnson was a thoroughly conventional mid-19th century woman who, though she showed strength and determination during the Civil War, did not question a woman’s role in the larger world.
Eliza’s son-in-law Daniel Stover died of consumption in 1864.
Eliza Johnson was a very conventional woman, who turned over her duties as First Lady to her very capable daughters.
www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=18   (1272 words)

  
 National Park Service - The Presidents (Andrew Johnson)
Johnson, a southerner whose first loyalty was always to the Union, almost lost his life while trying to prevent his home State, Tennessee, from seceding.
When Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, Johnson took over a task virtually as onerous as conduct of the war: Reconstruction of the South, or the restoration into the Union of the seceded States and the establishment of satisfactory social and economic relationships between whites and the newly freed slaves.
Johnson inevitably clashed with the Radical Republicans, led by Thaddeus Stevens in the House and Benjamin Wade in the Senate.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/presidents/bio17.htm   (1417 words)

  
 Tennessee Johnson (1942 b 102')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eliza says he is ill, and Johnson gets a letter from Lincoln warning about alcohol on an empty stomach while sick.
Johnson argues his case and blames Stevens for still being at war while Johnson hopes they can be a united country again.
President Johnson fired Stanton to test the constitutionality of the Tenure of Office Act, which was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1936.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1942/TennesseeJohnson.html   (463 words)

  
 American President
Eliza remained a positive influence during the ordeal, strongly believing that Johnson would be acquitted of all charges.
Frail in health but strong in the face of adversity, Eliza McCardle Johnson was an important presence behind the scenes of the Johnson White House, influencing both her daughter's and her husband's agendas.
While she rarely performed the First Lady's public duties, Eliza steadfastly supported her husband at a time when his administration was under attack and no doubt served as a model and an inspiration to future First Ladies who found themselves in similar situations.
www.americanpresident.org /history/andrewjohnson/firstlady   (736 words)

  
 President Andrew Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eliza was ill and she couldn't do her duties as First Lady.
Johnson was governor of Tennessee, and an U.S. Senator.
Johnson was almost impeached because Congress had made a law and he didn't like it so he didn't follow it.
www2.lhric.org /POCANTICO/presidents/johnson.htm   (395 words)

  
 President Andrew Johnson History Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Attempting to follow the course Lincoln set for reunifying (reuniting) the nation, Johnson was frustrated by the attitudes of Northern politicians and by discrimination against former slaves in the South.
Andrew Johnson, youngest of two sons of Jacob and Mary McDonough Johnson, was born in a small log house in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December 29, 1808.
Eliza Johnson was born on October 4, 1810, in Leesburg, Tennessee.
www.bookrags.com /history-president-andrew-johnson   (559 words)

  
 The First Ladies of the United States - Eliza McCardle Johnson
Eliza was almost 16 then and Andrew only 17; and local tradition tells of the day she first saw him.
By 1865 a soldier son and son-in-law had died, and Eliza was an invalid for life.
At the end of Johnson's term, Eliza returned with relief to her home in Tennessee, restored from wartime vandalism.
www.usemb.se /usflag/presidents/ej17.html   (451 words)

  
 The Presidents of the United States - Andrew Johnson
During the secession crisis, Johnson remained in the Senate even when Tennessee seceded, which made him a hero in the North and a traitor in the eyes of most Southerners.
In 1864 the Republicans, contending that their National Union Party was for all loyal men, nominated Johnson, a Southerner and a Democrat, for Vice President.
After Lincoln's death, President Johnson proceeded to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865.
www.usemb.se /usflag/presidents/aj17.html   (611 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Eliza Sophia (Birdie) Johnson, first Democratic national committeewoman from Texas and state women's club leader, the ninth of twelve children, was born to E. and Mary Elizabeth (Dickey) Robertson on November 15, 1868, in Salado, Texas.
Johnson used her early experience as a local club leader and supporter of her husband's political ambitions to propel herself into progressive Democratic politics at the national level.
As the well-educated and childless wife of a prominent Texas politician, she found herself with the time and opportunity to become active in her husband's campaigns and in local, state, and national organizations that supported her interests in education, family history, social service, and woman suffrage.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/JJ/fjoap.html   (719 words)

  
 Andrew Johnson quiz -- free game
Johnson and Eliza McCardle were married by a distant relative to a future president.
While a Tennessee state senator, Johnson attempted to revive a proposal to create a new state from the mountain regions of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia.
Johnson challenged this act when he dismissed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and congress impeached Johnson because of his attempt.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=184307   (305 words)

  
 Explore DC: Eliza Johnson
Although Eliza McCardle Johnson lived in the White House during her husband Andrew's turbulent administration, she took very little part in it.
Suffering from a form of tuberculosis, she was largely an invalid and usually stayed in an upstairs room overlooking the front lawn.
Eliza made only two public appearances during her time as first lady.
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 Eliza McCardle Johnson
Biography: "I knew he'd be acquitted; I knew it," declared Eliza McCardle Johnson, told how the Senate had voted in her husband's impeachment trial.
Her faith in him had never wavered during those difficult days in 1868, when her courage dictated that all White House social events should continue as usual.
Eliza was the daughter of Sarah Phillips and John McCardle, a shoemaker.
clinton4.nara.gov /textonly/WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/ej17.html   (444 words)

  
 JOHNSON GENEALOGY ANTRIM CO MICHIGAN
Juston Johnson (sic), who is stilling living in the township, was chopping on the Caldwell's arm (sic) on the lake road, now occupied by J. Hall, Esq., and was expected to finish his contract by three o'clock in the afternoon by Uncle Nick with whom he was boarding.
In January, 1823, Mary Ann Lee, the future wife of Alden Johnson was born in England on the Cornwall cost in the town of Loo1 and the village of Church-a-Bridge, within sight of the Eddistone lighthouse.
LeFontaine Frederick Johnson was born March 4, 1871 according to a funeral memorial in the possession of Ola Johnson.
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 ELIZA JOHNSON
Eliza had directed him to a campsite, and Johnson was taken with her kindness as well as her appearance.
Andrew Johnson's courtship of Eliza was short, and before she was seventeen they married on May 17, 1827.
Upon her husband's assumption of the Presidency on April 15, 1865, Johnson sent word to his family not to hasten to Washington as it would be several weeks before Mary Lincoln was able to leave.
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 Fort Tours | Blanco County Historical Markers and Museums
Sam Ealy, the younger Johnson brother, is known to history as grandfather of 36th president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
In 1879 he founded a new town, Johnson City, on the Pedernales River and was instrumental in its development.
In 1937, the Johnson's eldest son, Lyndon (1908-1973), launched his first campaign for Congress, and his ascent to the U.S. presidency, from the east porch.
www.forttours.com /pages/hmblanco.asp   (1251 words)

  
 A Moment in Time: First Ladies - Eliza Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lead: "We are a plain people from the mountains of Tennessee." So said the daughter of Eliza Johnson, wife of the seventeenth President of United States.
Johnson was almost an invalid and only twice in four years left her retreat to go downstairs for a public function; therefore, daughter Martha Patterson assumed hostess responsibilities for White House entertaining.
In the wake of the Lincoln assassination souvenir hunters had stripped the executive mansion and Martha supervised the redecoration, surprising a skeptical capital with the elegant results despite the budget shortage devoted to restoration.
ehistory.osu.edu /world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=2359   (306 words)

  
 Eliza Johnson, First Lady
Eliza McCarle was born in Leesburg, Tennessee on October 4, 1810.
Her daughter Martha Johnson Patterson fulfilled most of the obligations of the First Lady.
Eliza stayed by his side and when he was acquitted, she said "I knew it!"
www.classroomhelp.com /lessons/FirstLadies/EJohnson.html   (162 words)

  
 Miracles For Eliza .org
He has been treating CF patients for over 40 years, and it really encourages me to hear someone who has seen so much - be so positive.
Everyday, Eliza battles Cystic Fibrosis (CF), a life threatening genetic disease that affects the respiratory and digestive systems.
Eliza understands that she always has to take her medicine and that we ALWAYS do her treatment.
www.miraclesforeliza.org   (332 words)

  
 Combs &c. Families of Johnson Co, Kentucky
Johnson Co., KY was established in 1843 from
Johnson Co., KY. Married: Leonard DILLS and Dollie COMBS, born 14 Dec 1882 in Paintsville, Johnson County, KY, died Chillicothe,
Ross Co, OH, daughter of Elbert and Nancy PRESTON Combs (Combs Researcher Tina Dills who adds her source was obituary of Dollie, which included the info that the family moved to Chillicothe sometime after 1933).
www.combs-families.org /combs/records/ky/johnson   (1371 words)

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