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Andrew Johnson

Also known as A. Johnson, President Johnson, President Andrew Johnson

President of the United States from 1865 to 1869

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Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) was an American politician, military officer, statesperson, and tailor. He served as the President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, Governor of Tennessee, and member of the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the National Union Party, he served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Born in Raleigh, he died of a stroke in Elizabethton due to natural causes. He was married to Eliza McCardle Johnson and had five children. He spoke English as his native language. He is recognized in the Us Presidents, Us Vice Presidents, and Us Senators collections.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 31

Top works

What Is Destiny?
Luanne and Heatheria in Swan Lake
Princess Luanne and Wizard Heatheria
Princess Luanne and Wizard Heatheria
Seasons of the Dolorian Wizards

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1911-05-08
Active to: 1938-08-16

27 clubacoustic bluesamericanbluescountry bluesdelta blues

Discography

Blues Man (Remastered)

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,791
Total plays: 16,342

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,873x
Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,699x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,438x

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Quotes

“There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.”
“There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will most respectfully say that I entertain none... If a man is not capable, and is not to be trusted with the government of himself, is he to be trusted with the government of others... 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.”
“No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.”
“Mr. Jefferson meant the white race.”
“I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with Negroes, I am for it without Negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed, I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space.”
“I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day; yes, I'm a-goin for to tell you all, that I'm a plebian! I glory in it; I am a plebian! The people — yes, the people of the United States have made me what I am; and I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day — yes, to-day, in this place — that the people are everything.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. The 16th vice president, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was a War Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket in the 1864 presidential election, coming to office as the American Civil War concluded. Johnson favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the newly freed people who were formerly enslaved, as well as pardoning ex-Confederates. This led to conflict with the Republican Party-dominated U.S. Congress, culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives in 1868. He was acquitted in the Senate by one vote.

Johnson was born into poverty and never attended school. He was apprenticed as a tailor and worked in several frontier towns before settling in Greeneville, Tennessee, serving as an alderman and mayor before being elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1835. After briefly serving in the Tennessee Senate, Johnson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1843, where he served five two-year terms. He was the governor of Tennessee for four years, and was elected by the legislature to the U.S. Senate in 1857. During his congressional service, he sought passage of the Homestead Bill, which was enacted soon after he left his Senate seat. In February 1861, Slave states in the Southern U.S., including Tennessee, seceded to form the Confederate States of America, but Johnson remained firmly with the Union. He was the only senator from a Confederate state who did not promptly resign his seat upon learning of his state's secession. In 1862, Lincoln appointed him as Military Governor of Tennessee after most of it had been retaken. Johnson was a logical choice as Lincoln's running mate in 1864 because Lincoln wanted to send a message of national unity in his re-election campaign. Following their victory, Johnson became vice president.

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