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	Andrew Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Johnson was president during part of the Reconstruction following the Civil War, and his conciliatory policies towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with the Congressional Republicans, leading the House of Representatives to impeach him in 1868; he was the first President to be impeached.
		Johnson served as an alderman in Greeneville from 1828 to 1830 and mayor of Greeneville from 1830 to 1833.
		The Johnson Administration negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia on April 9 1867 for $10,900,000.
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	Andrew Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the sixteenth Vice President (1865) and the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
		Johnson was a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee and a Vice President and 17th President of the United States.
		Johnson was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1868 and to the House of Representatives in 1872.
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		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.
		Johnson used his influence to block the amendment in the states, as three-fourths of the states were required for ratification.
		Johnson was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate from Tennessee in 1868 and to the House of Representatives in 1872.
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	Andrew Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
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	TN Encyclopedia: ELIZA MCCARDLE JOHNSON
		Johnson was better educated than most women in her town.
		After the Johnsons left the White House and returned to Greeneville, her health remained poor, and she was in serious decline by the spring of 1875.
		Johnson was unable to attend her husband's funeral in August 1875.
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	Andrew Johnson at AllExperts
		Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 â" July 31 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865â"1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
		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.
		Johnson used his influence to block the amendment in the states, as three-fourths of the states were required for ratification.
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	Andrew Johnson
		Johnson began in politics to oppose the aristocratic element and became the spokesman and champion of the poorer and laboring classes.
		In 1835-1837 and 1839-1841 Johnson was a Democratic member of the state House of Representatives, and in 1841-1843 of the state Senate; in both houses he uniformly upheld the cause of the "common people", and, in addition, opposed legislation for "internal improvements." He soon was recognized as the political champion of East Tennessee.
		Johnson took a prominent and undignified part in the congressional campaign of 1866, in which his policies were voted down by the North.
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		Eliza McCardle was born on October 4, 1810, in Leesburg, Tennessee.
		Eliza was not yet 16 but she reportedly knew that she and Andrew were destined for each other upon first sight.
		Johnson continued in politics and was elected to the Senate in 1875.
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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 forced to travel through enemy lines to reach her husband.
		Johnson was ultimately acquitted and his devoted wife insisted that she had known all along that her husband would be proven innocent.
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	Biography of Eliza Johnson
		Eliza was almost 16 then and Andrew only 17; and local tradition tells of the day she first saw him.
		Eliza was the daughter of Sarah Phillips and John McCardle, a shoemaker.
		By 1865 a soldier son and son-in-law had died, and Eliza was an invalid for life.
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	Eliza McCardle Johnson - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Eliza McCardle Johnson - Picture - MSN Encarta
		In 1827 Eliza McCardle married Andrew Johnson, who became president of the United States in 1865.
		She became ill after Johnson became president, and their oldest daughter, Martha Patterson, a widow, took over the duties of White House hostess.
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	History's Women
		Such was Eliza McCardle, who grew from obscure poverty to national notice because she met a young tailor in frontier Tennessee.
		Eliza was sixteen in 1826 and she and her mother lived in Greenville, Tennessee supporting themselves by making and selling quilts and fabric shoes.
		Johnson was elected as Vice President in 1864 and assumed office in March, 1865.
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	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 womanâs role in the larger world.
		Elizaâs 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.
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	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.
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	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
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	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		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.
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	Andrew Johnson National Historic Site - Areaparks.com
		Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to Jacob and Polly Johnson.
		Andrew Johnson was the father of the “Homestead Bill” which provided 160 acres of land in the west to those who would farm and improve the land for five years.
		Andrew Johnson thought that was unconstitutional and in violation of the system of checks and balances so he fired his Secretary of war, Edwin Stanton to take the bill to court.
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	Andrew Johnson
		Andrew Johnson was the 17th and one of the most controversial of the American presidents.
		Johnson was a Southern Democrat who steadfastly support the Union and sought valiantly to keep Tennessee in the Union.
		Johnson was better educated than her husband and used her education to improve his reading and writing skills.
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	SPECTRUM Biographies - Andrew Johnson
		Eliza spent hours every night reading to Andrew until he could read and write.
		Johnson's biggest challenge as president was to reconcile the North and the South.
		Johnson pardoned all who would take an oath of allegiance to the Union.
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	Andrew Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Johnson was sworn in as President of the United States on April 15, 1865, upon the death of Lincoln that morning.
		Johnson's most important foreign policy action was the purchase of Alaska from Russia (the future Soviet Union), which would prove vital to national security later during the Cold War.
		Johnson was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate from Tennessee in 1868 and to the House of Representatives in 1872.
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	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.
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	The Presidents of the United States - Andrew Johnson
		Greeneville, Tennessee, married Eliza McCardle, and participated in debates at the local academy.
		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.
		After Lincoln's death, President Johnson proceeded to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865.
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	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 Johnson taught her husband writing and arithmetic.
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	Eliza McCardle Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elizabeth McCardle Johnson (October 4, 1810 – January 15, 1876) was the 22nd First Lady of the United States and the wife of Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States.
		She supported her husband in his political career, but had tried to avoid public appearances.
		Though she lived in the White House, she was not able to serve as First Lady due to her poor health, so her daughters Martha Johnson Patterson, and Mary Johnson Stover stepped in.
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	Eliza Johnson, First Lady of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Educated Eliza made a project of teaching young Johnson to read and write and married him within a year.
		From letters it is clear that Eliza considered her husband's 1868 impeachment trial purely political.
		Nevertheless, she was delighted to return to her Tennessee home and in 1875 witness his vindication when the Tennesse legislature sent him back to Washington as a U.S. Senator.
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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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	Andrew Johnson - 17th President
		Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina, to a very, very poor family.
		When he was an adult, he married Eliza McCardle, who taught Andrew how to write.
		Johnson held many positions in government and was a senator for Tennessee when the Civil War broke out in 1961.
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	Eliza Johnson, First Lady
		Eliza McCarle was born in Leesburg, Tennessee on October 4, 1810.
		Eliza tutored him in reading and taught him how to read and write.
		Eliza stayed by his side and when he was acquitted, she said "I knew it!"
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	First Lady Bio Eliza Johnson
		He met 16 year-old Eliza McCardle, and two months later they were wed
		Johnson had no formal education, but learned to read, write and spell from Eliza, who tutored him for ten years
		Johnson saved newspaper clippings of the impeachment trial of her husband, and followed a daily vigil of prayer for his acquittal
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